Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
- quart
- a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 pints or 1.136 liters
- Iraqi dinar
- the basic unit of money in Iraq; equal to 1,000 fils
- Colombian peso
- the basic unit of money in Colombia; equal to 100 centavos
- engineer's chain
- a unit of length (100 ft)
- mouthful
- the quantity that can be held in the mouth
- Cypriot pound
- the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents
- common multiple
- an integer that is a multiple of two or more other integers
- cask
- the quantity a cask will hold
- equivalent-binary-digit factor
- the average number of binary digits needed to express one radix digit in a numeration system that is not binary; on the average a number that can be expressed in N decimal digits takes 3.3N binary digits
- coefficient
- a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic
- twelfth
- one part in twelve equal parts
- denominator
- the divisor of a fraction
- F
- the capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates
- XIX
- the cardinal number that is the sum of eighteen and one
- haymow
- a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation
- poise
- a cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter; the viscosity of a fluid in which a force of one dyne per square centimeter maintains a velocity of 1 centimeter per second
- score
- a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest
- D
- the cardinal number that is the product of one hundred and five
- sq yd
- a unit of area equal to one yard by one yard square
- current unit
- a measure of the amount of electric charge flowing past a circuit point at a specific time
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