science and technology, an arbitrary unit (abbreviated arb. unit, see below) or procedure defined unit (p.d.u.) is a relative unit of measurement to show...

45359237 kg. While the above systems of units are based on arbitrary unit values, formalised as standards, natural units in physics are based on physical principle...

Atomic units are often abbreviated "a.u." or "au", not to be confused with similar abbreviations used for astronomical units, arbitrary units, and absorbance...

of the arbitrary unit of a pound of water raised 1° Fahrenheit and the 1⁄4000th of the kilogramme of water raised 1° Centigrade. Such a heat unit, if found...

0.1 nanometre. Astronomical unit, a unit of length used in planetary systems astronomy Arbitrary unit, a placeholder unit for when the actual value of...

identified as "arbitrary units". Arbitrary units are not commensurable with any other unit; measurements in arbitrary units cannot be compared with or...

"International Units" (and some non-international arbitrary "units" before them) to account for batch-to-batch variation. See Penicillin § Penicillin units. A number...

flow requirements. In order to determine the required size of pipe, an arbitrary unit is used for pipe sizing which takes into account the likelihood that...

Administrative distance (AD) or route preference is a number of arbitrary unit assigned to dynamic routes, static routes and directly-connected routes...

extraordinary acts are almost always seen as illegal violations of human rights. Arbitrary arrest and detention Encounter killings by police Extrajudicial punishment...

A unit of length refers to any arbitrarily chosen and accepted reference standard for measurement of length. The most common units in modern use are the...

{\displaystyle [Z]=\mathrm {metre} } is the unit. Conversely, the numerical value expressed in an arbitrary unit can be obtained as: { Z } = Z / [ Z ] {\displaystyle...

can be represented in terms of either time or story points (a sort of arbitrary unit). Burn charts can be used to present the project's team velocity. Velocity...

relativistically correct, time-varying electromagnetic field for a point charge in arbitrary motion, but are not corrected for quantum mechanical effects. Electromagnetic...

1953. and used an air pump. The tablet breaking force was based on arbitrary units referred to as Strong-Cobbs. The new one gave readings that were inconsistent...

transmissibility of an infection. List of dimensionless quantities Arbitrary unit Dimensional analysis Normalization (statistics) and standardized moment...

The viscosity index (VI) is an arbitrary, unit-less measure of a fluid's change in viscosity relative to temperature change. It is mostly used to characterize...

A base unit of measurement (also referred to as a base unit or fundamental unit) is a unit of measurement adopted for a base quantity. A base quantity...

Many options, such as wireless units and antennas, are intended to aid in strengthening weak signals. Arbitrary Strength Unit (ASU) is an integer value indicating...

In computing, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) is a combinational digital circuit that performs arithmetic and bitwise operations on integer binary numbers...

space, a unit bivector of any arbitrary planar orientation squares to −1, so can be taken to represent the imaginary unit i. The imaginary unit was historically...

In computer science, arbitrary-precision arithmetic, also called bignum arithmetic, multiple-precision arithmetic, or sometimes infinite-precision arithmetic...

general-purpose and could not execute arbitrary pixel code. Vertices and pixels were processed by different units, which had their resources, with pixel...

A metric prefix is a unit prefix that precedes a basic unit of measure to indicate a multiple or submultiple of the unit. All metric prefixes used today...

‖ v → ‖ {\textstyle {\vec {v}}/\|{\vec {v}}\|} is interpreted as an arbitrary unit vector. Therefore, nonzero, non-scalar quaternions, or positive scalar...

A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor, or just processor, is the primary processor in a given computer. Its...

centimetre–gram–second system of units (CGS or cgs) is a variant of the metric system based on the centimetre as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of mass, and the...

A unit of information is any unit of measure of digital data size. In digital computing, a unit of information is used to describe the capacity of a digital...

derivative: Let v ∈ R n {\displaystyle v\in \mathbb {R} ^{n}} be an arbitrary unit vector. With the directional derivative defined as ∇ v f ( x ) = lim...

An unusual unit of measurement is a unit of measurement that does not form part of a coherent system of measurement, especially because its exact quantity...