unit of measurement

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unit of measurement - any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange; "the dollar is the United States unit of currency"; "a unit of wheat is a bushel"; "change per unit volume"unitdefinite quantity - a specific measure of amountmeasuring block, measuring unit - a unit of measurementdenier - a unit of measurement for the fineness of silk or nylon or rayon; "with an evening dress one wears 10 denier stockings"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 oculistskarat, kt, carat - the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure goldabsorption unit - a unit for measuring absorptionacceleration unit - a unit for measuring accelerationangular unit - a unit of measurement for anglesarea unit, square measure - a system of units used to measure areascapacity measure, capacity unit, cubage unit, cubature unit, cubic content unit, cubic measure, displacement unit, volume unit - a unit of measurement of volume or capacitycomputer memory unit - a unit for measuring computer memoryelectromagnetic unit, emu - any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetismexplosive unit - any unit for measuring the force of explosionsforce unit - a unit of measurement of physical forcelinear measure, linear unit - a unit of measurement of lengthmetric unit, metric - a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds); "convert all the measurements to metric units"; "it is easier to work in metric"miles per gallon - the distance traveled in a vehicle powered by one gallon of gasoline or diesel fuelmonetary unit - a unit of moneymegaflop, MFLOP, million floating point operations per second - (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer systemteraflop, trillion floating point operations per second - (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer systemmillion instructions per second, MIPS - (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system); "4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second"pain unit - a unit measuring the intensity of painpressure unit - a unit measuring force per unit areaprinting unit - a unit of measurement for printingsound unit - any acoustic unit of measurementtelephone unit - a unit of measurement for telephone usetemperature unit - a unit of measurement for temperatureweight unit, weight - a unit used to measure weight; "he placed two weights in the scale pan"mass unit - a unit of measurement for massunit of viscosity - a unit of measurement for viscosityenergy unit, heat unit, work unit - a unit of measurement for worklangley - unit of solar radiationBrinell number - measure of the hardness of a materialpoint - the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest; "he scored 20 points in the first half"; "a touchdown counts 6 points"bit - a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states; "there are 8 bits in a byte"electrostatic unit - any of various units of electricity based on forces of interaction between electric charges