Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Unit of measurement   /jˈunət əv mˈɛʒərmənt/   Listen
Unit of measurement

noun
1.
Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.  Synonym: unit.  "A unit of wheat is a bushel" , "Change per unit volume"






WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Unit of measurement" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the orders, including the Doric, the column was given a base one half of a diameter in height (the unit of measurement being the diameter of the lower part of the shaft, the crassitudo of Vitruvius). The shaft was made to contract about one-sixth in diameter toward the capital, under which it was terminated by an astragal or collar of small mouldings; at the base it ended in a slight ...
— A Text-Book of the History of Architecture - Seventh Edition, revised • Alfred D. F. Hamlin



Words linked to "Unit of measurement" :   metric, kt, measuring block, displacement unit, mass unit, pain unit, dioptre, miles per gallon, electromagnetic unit, monetary unit, square measure, denier, karat, temperature unit, absorption unit, electrostatic unit, weight, point, carat, emu, angular unit, acceleration unit, cubic measure, megaflop, telephone unit, metric unit, cubage unit, million instructions per second, MIPS, work unit, million floating point operations per second, area unit, computer memory unit, Brinell number, unit, bit, definite quantity, MFLOP, force unit, linear unit, weight unit, explosive unit, diopter, cubature unit, energy unit, cubic content unit, trillion floating point operations per second, volume unit, unit of viscosity, heat unit, capacity unit, linear measure, sound unit, measuring unit, teraflop, printing unit, pressure unit, capacity measure, langley



Copyright © 2024 Free-Translator.com