Quantity, defined and adopted by convention.
1 It is not heat, not food; simply a unit of measure .
2 This is a fair standard for the unit of measure .
3 Marked out on a man's hand an inch is a large unit of measure .
4 Let us fill a hollow sphere of this diameter with cometary matter, and make it our unit of measure .
5 Where he saw sequence, other men saw something quite different, and no one saw the same unit of measure .
6 The unit of measure which he holds in his hand has become in his eyes a thing of paltry length.
7 Here, again, we appear to be without a unit of measure , both in the case of pleasures and of pains.
8 These days we count time to the millionth of a second, and time is the most accurate unit of measure we have.
9 The unit of measure of value which the railroad man believes in is entirely different from that in which the scientist rests his faith.
10 He eventually surveyed more than three hundred sites and discovered that there was a common unit of measure used in every one of them.
11 The basic unit of measure in the solar system is the Astronomical Unit, or AU, representing the distance from the Sun to the Earth.
12 An ounce was an ancient unit of measure , Reza's neural nanonics informed him (there was no reference to kinema in any file).
13 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.
14 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:
15 She has no doubts in her mind that there is a lower unit of measure for the trials and troubles of the "lower classes".
16 They are total blackout tights (basically pants in stocking form) and labeled 200 denier (a unit of measure that indicates the density of fibers).
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