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Meanings of unit of length in English

Russian
меры длины
Portuguese
unidade de comprimento
Spanish
unidades de longitud
Catalan
unitat de longitud

Way of measuring length or distance.

        меры длины
        Usage of unit of length in English
        1
        The basic unit of length is the nanometer: one-billionth of a meter.
        Nano
        2
        Such length being found, we divide it by ten, and thus obtain what is called the unit of length.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
        3
        I remember it gave some tiny little units of length and time.
        The Hyperion Cantos
        4
        (An angstrom unit -A- is anexceedinglyshortunit of length-10billionths of a centimeter, or about 4 billionths of an inch.)
        Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives