unit of measurement
real scalar quantity, defined and adopted by convention, with which any other quantity of the same kind can be compared to express the ratio of the two quantities as a number (VIM)
FLOPS
measure of computer performance
dots per inch
unit of measurement
sone
unit of perceived loudness
passenger car equivalent
metric used in transportation engineering
solar neutrino unit
unit of solar neutrino flux equal to the neutrino flux producing 10⁻³⁶ captures per target atom per second
floating-point operation
unit of measurement for numerical computer work
unit of length
way of measuring length or distance
carboy
Persian measure of volume for liquids, widely used on the coast around Gamron
unit of energy
unit for reporting measurement of energy
unit of information
capacity of information storage and communication
thomson
unit relating to the field of mass spectrometry
buckingham
unit of measurement for electric quadrupole moment; approximately 3.3×10⁻⁴⁰ C·m²
carbonate hardness
measure of the water hardness caused by the presence of carbonate and bicarbonate anions
Removal Units
tradable allowance to emit greenhouse gases
pixels per inch
number of dots per area of an image
total acid number
unit of measurement
Ball
Uzbek unit of measure
modulus
material science term
augmentation index
unit of measurement, pulse pressure
Estonian units of measurement
overview of units of measurement once used in Estonia
non-standard unit
not belonging to metric system
Bacon number
degrees of separation between a person and actor Kevin Bacon
man-day
unit for the amount of work performed by the average worker in one workday
Opera length
term for the length of fashion accessories
Degrees
Cartier scale
Surface imperfections
Standards of defining surface imperfections on optical surfaces such as lenses and mirrors, coming from fabrication or handling
instructions per second
measure of a computer's processing speed
literacy rate
percentage of a population that is not illiterate
cent
unit of measurement
page
unit of extent that consists of a single side of a leaf
emission intensity
emission rate of a given pollutant relative to the intensity of a specific activity, or an industrial production process; e.g. grams of CO₂ released per megajoule of energy produced, or the ratio of greenhouse gas emissions produced to GDP
International System of Electrical and Magnetic Units
obsolete system of units used for measuring electrical and magnetic quantities, proposed in 1893
capacity factor
unitless ratio of an actual electrical energy output over a given period of time to the maximum possible electrical energy output over the same amount of time
Hubble's constant
constant of proportionality occurring in Hubble's law; approximately 70 (km/s)/Mpc
sabin
unit of sound absorption
Gunter's chain
distance measuring device used for surveying
gauge
unit of measure for knitting stitches, in stitches per inch
billion cubic metres of natural gas
measure of natural gas
Penalty in Minutes
ice hockey
score
in sport, quantitative measure of the relative performance of opponents in a sporting discipline
Snowden
unit of soft X-ray emissivity
twists per inch
measure of twist in yarn
ball
unit of measurement on various scales
metre water equivalent
unit of nuclear and particle physics
brake horsepower per cubic centimeter
unit used for internal combustion engines