Quantity, defined and adopted by convention.
1 And I invented a new unit of measurement -the Bublé.
2 It looked like Pam was translating from one unit of measurement to another.
3 The webbed structure also defies any kind of grid or obvious unit of measurement .
4 Here the unit of measurement is the school year.
5 I normally talk about how much 1000 points are worth, because it's a more useful unit of measurement .
6 Among the facts learned was that a barrel, an arbitrary unit of measurement , is 42 U.S. gallons of oil.
7 When the measuring spear fitted within the hundred paces exactly twenty times, Trella had her basic unit of measurement .
8 The unit of measurement for the Hubble constant is kilometers per second per megaparsec -which is three million light-years
9 Here, we suspect, is the beginning of an almost inevitable development-the atomic bomb as a unit of measurement , like horsepower.
10 He can translate the 500 or 1,000 feet of snow-slope into a more tangible unit of measurement .
11 Baud A unit of measurement that shows the number of discrete signal elements, such as bits, that can be sent per second.
12 The unit of measurement was the arura; that is to say, a square of a hundred cubits, comprising in round numbers twenty-eight ares.
13 Megahertz is a unit of measurement for the wireless spectrum, which is used to transmit radio and broadcast TV signals and mobile phone calls.
14 On the other hand, no man of sense pretends to have any accurate unit of measurement by which he can make unerring estimates of desirability.
15 The letter M is the unit of measurement when the amount of any piece of composition is to be estimated, and is written "em."
16 This action takes place on any meter completing a unit of measurement of (say) 1,000 cubic feet, at which point the contact makers touch.
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