• Various measures of paper quantity have been and are in use. Although there are no S.I. units such as quires or bales, there are ISO and DIN standards...
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    generally indicates the type of quantity and the base of the logarithm. Examples of logarithmic units include units of information and information entropy...
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  • equality, proportion, the measurements of quantities, the units of measurements, number and numbering systems, the types of numbers and their relations to each...
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    stationery PC LOAD LETTER Paper density Photo print sizes Tiled printing Toilet paper § Sheet size Units of paper quantity – ream, quire etc. Belize,...
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    has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Octavo". Book size Bookbinding Folio Quarto Paper size Units of paper quantity Beal, Peter....
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    Manuscript', with dimensions of 920 mm × 500 mm (36 in × 20 in). List of booksellers' abbreviations Units of paper quantity Cf. Bowers,: 429–430  suggesting...
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    definitions of the base units.: 128  The SI selects seven units to serve as base units, corresponding to seven base physical quantities. They are the...
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  • Planck scale refers to quantities of space, time, energy and other units that are similar in magnitude to corresponding Planck units. This region may be...
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    number of sheets per gathering started to vary more. Section (typography) Signature mark Units of paper quantity Book size Octavo Imposition "Glossary of Binding...
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    / V {\displaystyle c=n/V} . The standard SI unit of this quantity is mol/m3, although more practical units are commonly used, such as mole per liter (mol/L...
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  • 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 may...
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    erg/g, as the unit of measure of the new radiation quantity absorbed dose. The rad was expressed in coherent cgs units. In 1975 the unit gray was named...
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  • It is used as a unit of the radiation quantity absorbed dose that measures the energy deposited by ionizing radiation in a unit mass of absorbing material...
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    fraction. Since these fractions are quantity-per-quantity measures, they are pure numbers with no associated units of measurement. Commonly used are parts-per-million...
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  • The quantity theory of money (often abbreviated QTM) is a hypothesis within monetary economics which states that the general price level of goods and...
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  • Area density (category Area-specific quantities)
    can be defined by replacing mass by number of particles or other countable quantity, with resulting units of m−2. Area density can be calculated as: ρ...
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    table shows radiation quantities in SI and non-SI units: The gray (Gy) is the SI unit of absorbed dose, which is the amount of radiation energy deposited...
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  • The Missal of Silos is the oldest known document on paper (as opposed to parchment) created in Europe; it dates to before 1080 AD. The manuscript was written...
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    Celsius (redirect from Celsius (unit))
    Sweden), one of two temperature scales used in the International System of Units (SI), the other being the closely related Kelvin scale. The degree Celsius...
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    In 2019, four of the seven SI base units specified in the International System of Quantities were redefined in terms of natural physical constants, rather...
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  • Watt (redirect from Watt (unit))
    practical units to absolute units (i.e., using only length, mass, and time). Concretely, this meant that 1 watt was defined as the quantity of energy transferred...
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  • constant" refers to the physical quantity, and not to the numerical value within any given system of units. For example, the speed of light is defined as having...
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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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    execution units, such as load–store units, arithmetic–logic units, floating-point units and address generation units. In a superscalar pipeline, instructions...
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  • Absorbed dose (category Radioactivity quantities)
    dose quantity which is the measure of the energy deposited in matter by ionizing radiation per unit mass. Absorbed dose is used in the calculation of dose...
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    The pulp and paper industry comprises companies that use wood, specifically pulpwood, as raw material and produce pulp, paper, paperboard, and other cellulose-based...
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  • Bit (redirect from Bit (unit))
    capacity of a storage system is only an upper bound to the quantity of information stored therein. If the two possible values of one bit of storage are...
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  • 2015-02-12. Retrieved 2015-01-09. "Fundamental Quantities and Units for Ionizing Radiation (ICRU Report 85)". Journal of the ICRU. 11 (1). 2011. Archived from...
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    1038/107264c0. ISSN 1476-4687. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (1993). Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry, 2nd edition...
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  • larger units, traditionally called pages. Terms for large quantities of bits can be formed using the standard range of SI prefixes for powers of 10, e...
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