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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

A coherent system of units is a system of units of measurement used to express physical quantities that are defined in such a way that the equations relating...

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...

Byzantine units of measurement were a combination and modification of the ancient Greek and Roman units of measurement used in the Byzantine Empire. Until...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The units of measurement in transportation describes the unit of measurement used to express various transportation quantities, as used in statistics,...

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:...

The Tamil units of measurement is a system of measurements that was traditionally used in ancient Tamil-speaking parts of South India. These ancient measurement...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

"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...

France has a unique history of units of measurement due to its radical decision to invent and adopt the metric system after the French Revolution. In...