| Library / English Dictionary |
UNIT OF MEASUREMENT
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
Example:
change per unit volume
Synonyms:
unit; unit of measurement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("unit of measurement" is a kind of...):
definite quantity (a specific measure of amount)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unit of measurement"):
teraflop; trillion floating point operations per second ((computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system)
million instructions per second; MIPS ((computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system))
pain unit (a unit measuring the intensity of pain)
pressure unit (a unit measuring force per unit area)
printing unit (a unit of measurement for printing)
sound unit (any acoustic unit of measurement)
telephone unit (a unit of measurement for telephone use)
temperature unit (a unit of measurement for temperature)
weight; weight unit (a unit used to measure weight)
mass unit (a unit of measurement for mass)
unit of viscosity (a unit of measurement for viscosity)
energy unit; heat unit; work unit (a unit of measurement for work)
langley (unit of solar radiation)
Brinell number (measure of the hardness of a material)
point (the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest)
bit (a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states)
electrostatic unit (any of various units of electricity based on forces of interaction between electric charges)
measuring block; measuring unit (a unit of measurement)
denier (a unit of measurement for the fineness of silk or nylon or rayon)
diopter; dioptre (a unit of measurement of the refractive power of a lens which is equal to the reciprocal of the focal length measured in meters; used by oculists)
carat; karat; kt (the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold)
absorption unit (a unit for measuring absorption)
acceleration unit (a unit for measuring acceleration)
angular unit (a unit of measurement for angles)
area unit; square measure (a system of units used to measure areas)
capacity measure; capacity unit; cubage unit; cubature unit; cubic content unit; cubic measure; displacement unit; volume unit (a unit of measurement of volume or capacity)
computer memory unit (a unit for measuring computer memory)
electromagnetic unit; emu (any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism)
explosive unit (any unit for measuring the force of explosions)
force unit (a unit of measurement of physical force)
linear measure; linear unit (a unit of measurement of length)
metric; metric unit (a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds))
miles per gallon (the distance traveled in a vehicle powered by one gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel)
monetary unit (a unit of money)
megaflop; MFLOP; million floating point operations per second ((computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system)
Context examples:
A unit of measurement equal to 10 to the twelfth power of the number of entities per unit of volume equal to one liter.
(Million per Microliter, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A derived unit of measurement of viable bacterial organisms in a unit volume of substance of interest defined as the number of million colony forming units (10E6CFU) in one milliliter of substance.
(Million Colony Forming Units per Milliliter, NCI Thesaurus)
A derived unit of measurement of viable bacterial organisms in a unit mass of substance of interest defined as the number of million colony forming units (10E6CFU) in one gram of substance.
(Million Colony Forming Units per Gram, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of measurement equal to one million ribonucleic acid (RNA) copies per unit of volume equal to one milliliter.
(Million RNA Copies per Milliliter, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of measurement equal to one million deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) copies per unit of volume equal to one milliliter.
(Million DNA Copies per Milliliter, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of measurement equal to 10 to one million international units of an entity per unit of volume equal to one milliliter.
(Million International Units per Milliliter, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of measurement equal to 10 to the sixth power of the number of entities per unit of mass equal to one gram.
(Million per Gram, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A unit of measurement equal to one million entities per unit of mass equal to one gram.
(Million per Gram, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of measurement of viable bacterial numbers equal to 10E9 colony forming units.
(Billion Colony Forming Units, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of measurement equal to one million entities per unit of area equal to one high powered field.
(Million per High Powered Field, NCI Thesaurus)
