A unit of measurement, or unit of measure, is a definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard...
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A system of units of measurement, also known as a system of units or system of measurement, is a collection of units of measurement and rules relating...
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Chinese units of measurement, known in Chinese as the shìzhì ("market system"), are the traditional units of measurement of the Han Chinese. Although...
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An unusual unit of measurement is a unit of measurement that does not form part of a coherent system of measurement, especially because its exact quantity...
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A base unit of measurement (also referred to as a base unit or fundamental unit) is a unit of measurement adopted for a base quantity. A base quantity...
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century, most nations of the former empire had officially adopted the metric system as their main system of measurement, but imperial units are still used alongside...
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Traditional Japanese units of measurement or the shakkanhō (尺貫法) is the traditional system of measurement used by the people of the Japanese archipelago...
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Traditional Russian units of measurement were standardized and used in Imperial Russia and after the Russian Revolution, but were abandoned after 21 July...
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measured in terms of linear mass density, the weight of a given length of fiber. Various units are used to refer to the measurement of a fiber, such as:...
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people have made use of, or invented, units of measurement intended primarily for their humor value. This is a list of such units invented by sources that...
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This is a list of obsolete units of measurement, organized by type. These units of measurement are typically no longer used, though some may be in limited...
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System of Units (SI). This system reduces all physical measurements to a mathematical combination of seven base units. The science of measurement is pursued...
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There are a number of Spanish units of measurement of length or area that are virtually obsolete due to metrication. They include the vara, the cordel...
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inertial measurement unit (IMU) is an electronic device that measures and reports a body's specific force, angular rate, and sometimes the orientation of the...
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Korean units of measurement, called cheokgwan-beop (Korean: 척관법; Hanja: 尺貫法) or cheokgeun-beop (척근법; 尺斤法) in Korean, is the traditional system of measurement...
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The units of measurement in transportation describes the unit of measurement used to express various transportation quantities, as used in statistics,...
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A number of units of measurement were used in the Philippines to measure various quantities including mass, area, and capacity. The metric system has...
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United States customary units form a system of measurement units commonly used in the United States and most U.S. territories, since being standardized...
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The units of measurement of ancient Rome were generally consistent and well documented. The basic unit of Roman linear measurement was the pes (plural:...
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instead of Burmese script. The traditional Burmese units of measurement were a system of measurement used in Myanmar.[citation needed] Myanmar was one of three...
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foot (standard symbol: ft) is a unit of length in the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. The prime symbol, ′, is commonly...
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Look up unit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Unit may refer to: Unit of measurement, a definite magnitude of a physical quantity, defined and adopted...
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introduction of the metric system, one may divide the history of Indian systems of measurement into three main periods: the pre-Akbar period, the period of the...
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The Tamil units of measurement is a system of measurements that was traditionally used in ancient Tamil-speaking parts of South India. These ancient measurement...
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The units of measurement of German-speaking countries consist of a variety of units, with varying local standard definitions. While many were made redundant...
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Ancient Mesopotamian units of measurement originated in the loosely organized city-states of Early Dynastic Sumer. Each city, kingdom and trade guild...
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English units were the units of measurement used in England up to 1826 (when they were replaced by Imperial units), which evolved as a combination of the...
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is a unit of measurement, the base unit in the International System of Units (SI) for amount of substance, a quantity proportional to the number of elementary...
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transactions. These units are mostly historical, although they are still used in some limited contexts and in Maltese idioms and set phrases. Many of these terms...
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Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement were used primarily by ancient Israelites and appear frequently within the Hebrew Bible as well as in later...
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