NOUN | a unit of measurement | units of measurement | |
SYNO | unit | unit of measurement |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- Horsepower (hp) is a unit of measurement of power, or the rate at which work is done, usually in reference to the output of engines or motors.
- (sometimes Gs), is a unit of measurement of magnetic induction, also known as "magnetic flux density".
- The SI unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after him. His name is also one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower.
- The decibel (symbol: dB) is a relative unit of measurement equal to one tenth of a bel (B).
- This has led to calls to abandon the astronomical unit as a unit of measurement.
- Mickeys per second is a unit of measurement for the speed and movement direction of a computer mouse, where direction is often expressed as "horizontal" versus "vertical" mickey count.
- "sagan" has been defined as a unit of measurement equivalent to a very large number – technically at least four billion (two billion plus two billion) – of anything.
- Further, the term also stands for an ancient Roman unit of measurement for liquids. The volume of a Roman amphora was one cubic foot, c. 26.026 L.
- as well as quantity of dimension one) is a quantity to which no physical dimension is assigned, with a corresponding SI unit of measurement of one (or 1), For example, optical extent is defined as having units of metres multiplied by steradians.
- By convention, it is reported on the "Kelvin scale" of temperature in which the unit of measurement is the "kelvin" (unit symbol: K).
- ... symbol: Bd) is a common unit of measurement of symbol rate, which is one of the components that determine the speed of communication over a data channel.
- The unit of measurement for resistance is the ohm (Ω).
- Nanoengineering is the practice of engineering on the nanoscale. It derives its name from the nanometre, a unit of measurement equalling one billionth of a meter.
- The micrometre is a common unit of measurement for wavelengths of infrared radiation as well as sizes of biological cells and bacteria, and for grading wool by the diameter of the fibres.
- In the International System of Units (SI), the unit of measurement of momentum is the kilogram metre per second (kg⋅m/s), which is equivalent to the newton-second.
- For example, the decibel is a unit of measurement associated with logarithmic-scale quantities.
- The Pythagoreans had discovered that the diagonal of a square does not have a common unit of measurement with the sides of the square; this is the famous discovery that the square root of 2 cannot be expressed as the ratio of two integers.
- Another unit of measurement common in the US is picocuries per liter (pCi/L); 1 pCi/L = 37 Bq/m3.
- In Ireland, metric is the official unit of measurement though most people [...] would not understand metric units for measuring the body, distances or area.
- The unit of measurement varies by region: a United States tablespoon is approximately [...] , a United Kingdom and Canadian tablespoon is exactly [...] , and an Australian tablespoon is [...].
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