unit of measurement

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noun

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
• Syn:
unit
• Derivationally related forms:
unitize (for: unit)
• Hypernyms:
definite quantity
• Hyponyms:
measuring unit, measuring block, denier, diopter, dioptre,
karat, carat, kt, absorption unit, acceleration unit, angular unit,
area unit, square measure, volume unit, capacity unit, capacity measure, cubage unit,
cubic measure, cubic content unit, displacement unit, cubature unit, computer memory unit, electromagnetic unit,
emu, explosive unit, force unit, linear unit, linear measure, metric unit,
metric, miles per gallon, monetary unit, megaflop, MFLOP, million floating point operations per second,
teraflop, trillion floating point operations per second, MIPS, million instructions per second, pain unit, pressure unit,
printing unit, sound unit, telephone unit, temperature unit, weight unit, weight,
mass unit, unit of viscosity, work unit, heat unit, energy unit, langley,
Brinell number, point, bit, electrostatic unit