unit of measurement, n.
any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
<noun.quantity> freq. cnt.: 14 freq. cnt.: 14
unit unit of measurement
sample sentences
"the dollar is the United States unit of currency""a unit of wheat is a bushel"
"change per unit volume"
semantic pointers
hypernym
hyponym
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