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