unit of measurement

1. Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange (synset 113604927)
   "the dollar is the United States unit of currency"; "a unit of wheat is a bushel"; "change per unit volume"
   is a type of: definite quantity - a specific measure of amount
   subtypes:

   • measuring block, measuring unit - a unit of measurement
   • denier - a unit of measurement for the fineness of silk or nylon or rayon
   • diopter, dioptre - a unit of measurement of the refractive power of a lens which is equal to the reciprocal of the focal length measured in meters; used by oculists
   • carat, karat, kt - the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold
   • absorption unit - a unit for measuring absorption
   • acceleration unit - a unit for measuring acceleration
   • angular unit - a unit of measurement for angles
   • area unit, square measure - a system of units used to measure areas
   • capacity measure, capacity unit, cubage unit, cubature unit, cubic content unit, cubic measure, displacement unit, volume unit - a unit of measurement of volume or capacity
   • computer memory unit - a unit for measuring computer memory
   • electromagnetic unit, emu - any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism
   • explosive unit - any unit for measuring the force of explosions
   • force unit - a unit of measurement of physical force
   • linear measure, linear unit - a unit of measurement of length
   • metric, metric unit - a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds)
   • miles per gallon - the distance traveled in a vehicle powered by one gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel
   • monetary unit - a unit of money
   • megaflop, mflop, million floating point operations per second - (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system
   • teraflop, trillion floating point operations per second - (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system
   • million instructions per second, mips - (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system)
   • pain unit - a unit measuring the intensity of pain
   • pressure unit - a unit measuring force per unit area
   • printing unit - a unit of measurement for printing
   • sound unit - any acoustic unit of measurement
   • telephone unit - a unit of measurement for telephone use
   • temperature unit - a unit of measurement for temperature
   • weight, weight unit - a unit used to measure weight
   • mass unit - a unit of measurement for mass
   • unit of viscosity - a unit of measurement for viscosity
   • energy unit, heat unit, work unit - a unit of measurement for work
   • langley - unit of solar radiation
   • brinell number - measure of the hardness of a material
   • point - the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
   • bit - a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states
   • electrostatic unit - any of various units of electricity based on forces of interaction between electric charges
   same as: unit

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