A unit of measurement, or unit of measure, is a definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard...

A system of units of measurement, also known as a system of units or system of measurement, is a collection of units of measurement and rules relating...

Chinese units of measurement, known in Chinese as the shìzhì ("market system"), are the traditional units of measurement of the Han Chinese. Although...

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...

century, most nations of the former empire had officially adopted the metric system as their main system of measurement, but imperial units are still used alongside...

The units of measurement of ancient Rome were generally consistent and well documented. The basic unit of Roman linear measurement was the pes (plural:...

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...

Traditional Japanese units of measurement or the shakkanhō (尺貫法) is the traditional system of measurement used by the people of the Japanese archipelago...

people have made use of, or invented, units of measurement intended primarily for their humor value. This is a list of such units invented by sources that...

Historical Russian units of measurement were standardized and used in the Russian Empire and after the Russian Revolution, but were abandoned after 21...

There are a number of Spanish units of measurement of length or area that are virtually obsolete due to metrication. They include the vara, the cordel...

inertial measurement unit (IMU) is an electronic device that measures and reports a body's specific force, angular rate, and sometimes the orientation of the...

United States customary units form a system of measurement units commonly used in the United States and most U.S. territories since being standardized...

This is a list of obsolete units of measurement, organized by type. These units of measurement are typically no longer used, though some may be in limited...

The mole (symbol mol) is a unit of measurement, the base unit in the International System of Units (SI) for amount of substance, an SI base quantity proportional...

English units were the units of measurement used in England up to 1826 (when they were replaced by Imperial units), which evolved as a combination of the...

Korean units of measurement, called cheokgwan-beop (Korean: 척관법; Hanja: 尺貫法) or cheokgeun-beop (척근법; 尺斤法) in Korean, is the traditional system of measurement...

system of measurement used in Thailand employed anthropic units. Some of these units are still in use, albeit standardised to SI/metric measurements. When...

measured in terms of linear mass density, the weight of a given length of fiber. Various units are used to refer to the measurement of a fiber, such as:...

of traditional Turkish units of measurement, a.k.a. Ottoman units of measurement, is given below. The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923), the predecessor of modern...

sagan has been defined as a unit of measurement equivalent to a very large number of anything. Sagan's number is the number of stars in the observable universe...

Nautical units of measurement in current or historical use include: Ship measurements Glossary of nautical terms (disambiguation) "rhumb, n". Oxford English...

"sacred") were units of both weight and volume. A shekel or mina weight was equal to the weight of that volume of water. The talent was a measure of weight used...

System of Units (SI). This system reduces all physical measurements to a mathematical combination of seven base units. The science of measurement is pursued...

The Dutch units of measurement used today are those of the metric system. Before the 19th century, a wide variety of different weights and measures were...

Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement were used primarily by ancient Israelites and appear frequently within the Hebrew Bible as well as in later...

chains). Bars of metal one rod long were used as standards of length when surveying land. The rod was still in use as a common unit of measurement in the mid-19th...

foot (standard symbol: ft) is a unit of length in the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. The prime symbol, ′, is commonly...

Traditional Swedish units of measurement were standardized by law in 1665, prior to which they only existed as a number of related but differing local...

Egyptian units of measurement are those used by the dynasties of ancient Egypt prior to its incorporation in the Roman Empire and general adoption of Roman...