Quantity, defined and adopted by convention.
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It is not heat, not food; simply a unit of measure.
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This is a fair standard for the unit of measure.
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Marked out on a man's hand an inch is a large unit of measure.
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Let us fill a hollow sphere of this diameter with cometary matter, and make it our unit of measure.
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Where he saw sequence, other men saw something quite different, and no one saw the same unit of measure.
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The unit of measure which he holds in his hand has become in his eyes a thing of paltry length.
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Here, again, we appear to be without a unit of measure, both in the case of pleasures and of pains.
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These days we count time to the millionth of a second, and time is the most accurate unit of measure we have.
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The unit of measure of value which the railroad man believes in is entirely different from that in which the scientist rests his faith.
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He eventually surveyed more than three hundred sites and discovered that there was a common unit of measure used in every one of them.
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The basic unit of measure in the solar system is the Astronomical Unit, or AU, representing the distance from the Sun to the Earth.
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An ounce was an ancient unit of measure, Reza's neural nanonics informed him (there was no reference to kinema in any file).
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More specifically paid for in-world sex, and potentially the ultimate unit of measure may be the '15 min quickie blowjob', giving us the QBJ index.
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In referring to the very prevalent notion, especially among the uneducated classes, that the gold unit of measure of value does not vary, he says:
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She has no doubts in her mind that there is a lower unit of measure for the trials and troubles of the "lower classes".
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They are total blackout tights (basically pants in stocking form) and labeled 200 denier (a unit of measure that indicates the density of fibers).