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