Unit Of Measurement (Noun)
Meaning
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".
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- The meter is the standard unit of measurement for length in the International System of Units.
- A unit of measurement is a standard quantity of measurement, such as a meter or a liter.
- The company's production is measured in units of output per hour.
- The price of the item is determined by the unit of measurement, which is the kilogram.
- The recipe calls for a unit of measurement of two cups of flour.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- Energy Unit
- Dioptre
- Million Floating Point Operations Per Second
- Kt
- Carat
- Displacement Unit
- Cubage Unit
- MFLOP
- Cubic Measure
- Capacity Measure
- Emu
- Capacity Unit
- Trillion Floating Point Operations Per Second
- Square Measure
- Linear Measure
- Heat Unit
- Measuring Block
- Cubature Unit
- Cubic Content Unit
- Metric
- Million Instructions Per Second
- Weight