UNIT OF MEASUREMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unit of measurement mean? 

• UNIT OF MEASUREMENT (noun)
  The noun UNIT OF MEASUREMENT has 1 sense:

1. any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange

  Familiarity information: UNIT OF MEASUREMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNIT OF MEASUREMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

unit; unit of measurement

Context example:

change per unit volume

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"):

weight; weight unit (a unit used to measure weight)

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)

megaflop; MFLOP; million floating point operations per second ((computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system)

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)

computer memory unit (a unit for measuring computer memory)

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)

measuring block; measuring unit (a unit of measurement)

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)

 Context examples 

A derived unit of measurement of viable bacterial organisms in a unit volume of substance of interest defined as the number of colony forming units in one milliliter of substance.

(Colony Forming Unit 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 colony forming units in one gram of substance.

(Colony Forming Unit per Gram, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of measurement equal to 10 to the eighth power of entities per unit of volume equal to one liter.

(Hundred Million Per Liter, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A arbitrary unit of measurement of substance that passes through or onto a given area per unit of time.

(Arbitrary Unit of Substance Rate, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of measurement of viable bacterial numbers equal to 10E6 colony forming units.

(Million Colony Forming Units, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of measurement of viable bacterial organisms in a unit volume of substance of interest defined as the number of colony forming units in one culture dish.

(Colony Forming Unit per Dish, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of measurement equal to 10 to the fifth power of entities per unit of volume equal to one liter.

(Hundred Thousand Per Liter, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A unit of measurement of viable bacterial numbers.

(Colony Forming Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

A derived unit of measurement of viable bacterial organisms in a unit mass of substance of interest defined as the number of billion colony forming units (10E9CFU) in one gram of substance.

(Billion Colony Forming Units per Gram, NCI Thesaurus)

A derived unit of measurement of viable bacterial organisms in a unit volume of substance of interest defined as the number of billion colony forming units (10E9CFU) in one milliliter of substance.

(Billion Colony Forming Units per Milliliter, NCI Thesaurus)