Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

luminous flux unit
a measure of luminous flux per unit area
 
utility
(economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice
 
cardinality
(mathematics) the number of elements in a set or group (considered as a property of that grouping)
 
quotient
the number obtained by division
 
EiB
a unit of information equal to 1024 pebibytes or 2^60 bytes
 
handful
the quantity that can be held in the hand
 
vital capacity
the maximum amount of air that can be exhaled after a maximum inhalation (usually tested with a spirometer); used to determine the condition of lung tissue
 
multiplicand
the number that is multiplied by the multiplier
 
mA
one thousandth of an ampere
 
dreg
a small amount of residue
 
bulk modulus
the ratio of the change in pressure acting on a volume to the fractional change in volume
 
modicum
a small or moderate or token amount
 
British Imperial System
a system of weights and measures based on the foot and pound and second and pint
 
mil
an angular unit used in artillery; equal to 1/6400 of a complete revolution
 
Moroccan dirham
the basic unit of money in Morocco; equal to 100 centimes
 
breakage
the quantity broken
 
Turkish monetary unit
monetary unit in Turkey
 
cosmological constant
an arbitrary constant in the equations of general relativity theory
 
board foot
the volume of a piece of wood 1 foot square and 1 inch thick
 
googol
a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred)
 
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