unit of measurement

Noun unit of measurement has 1 sense

• unit of measurement(n = noun.quantity) unit - any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange; "the dollar is the United States unit of currency"; "a unit of wheat is a bushel"; "change per unit volume"
is a kind of definite quantity
has particulars: measuring block, measuring unit, denier, diopter, dioptre, carat, karat, kt, absorption unit, acceleration unit, angular unit, area unit, square measure, capacity measure, capacity unit, cubage unit, cubature unit, cubic content unit, cubic measure, displacement unit, volume unit, computer memory unit, electromagnetic unit, emu, explosive unit, force unit, linear measure, linear unit, metric, metric unit, miles per gallon, monetary unit, megaflop, mflop, million floating point operations per second, teraflop, trillion floating point operations per second, million instructions per second, mips, pain unit, pressure unit, printing unit, sound unit, telephone unit, temperature unit, weight, weight unit, mass unit, unit of viscosity, energy unit, heat unit, work unit, langley, brinell number, point, bit, electrostatic unit