• Dimensionless quantities, or quantities of dimension one, are quantities implicitly defined in a manner that prevents their aggregation into units of measurement...
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  • well-known dimensionless quantities illustrating their variety of forms and applications. The tables also include pure numbers, dimensionless ratios, or...
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  • which is itself dimensionless. Therefore, multiplying by that conversion factor does not change the dimensions of a physical quantity. There are also...
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  • milliliter (mL/mL). The number one is recognized as a dimensionless base quantity. Radians serve as dimensionless units for angular measurements, derived from...
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    systems of units). The angular quantities, plane angle and solid angle, are defined as derived dimensionless quantities in the SI. For some relations,...
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    Parts-per notation (category Dimensionless numbers)
    values of miscellaneous dimensionless quantities, e.g. mole fraction or mass fraction. Since these fractions are quantity-per-quantity measures, they are pure...
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    Such a quantity can be regarded as a derived quantity in the form of the ratio of two quantities of the same dimension. The named dimensionless units "radian"...
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  • A g-factor (also called g value) is a dimensionless quantity that characterizes the magnetic moment and angular momentum of an atom, a particle or the...
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    in a one-mole sample equals the Avogadro number (symbol N0), a dimensionless quantity. Historically, N0 approximates the number of nucleons (protons or...
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  • common symbols for the quantities, and the given dimensionless number is the ratio of the left column quantity over top row quantity; e.g. Re = inertial...
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  • as a quantity with dimensions or simply to define it as unity or a fixed dimensionless number, and reduce the number of explicit base quantities by one...
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  • across different systems of units, it is sometimes replaced by the dimensionless quantity "relative density" or "specific gravity", i.e. the ratio of the...
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    Reynolds number (category Dimensionless numbers of fluid mechanics)
    In fluid dynamics, the Reynolds number (Re) is a dimensionless quantity that helps predict fluid flow patterns in different situations by measuring the...
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    The deviation from the ideal gas behavior can be described by a dimensionless quantity, the compressibility factor, Z. The ideal gas model has been explored...
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  • matrix or tensor), and whether the quantity is conserved. List of photometric quantities List of radiometric quantities List of dimensionless quantities...
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    the power number, which is the dimensionless description of the stirrer. Note that the two dimensionless quantities are not unique and depend on which...
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  • Mole fraction (category Dimensionless quantities of chemistry)
    recommended.) It is a dimensionless quantity with dimension of N / N {\displaystyle {\mathsf {N}}/{\mathsf {N}}} and dimensionless unit of moles per mole...
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  • Strain (mechanics) (category Dimensionless quantities)
    ratio, with SI base units of meter per meter (m/m). Hence strains are dimensionless and are usually expressed as a decimal fraction or a percentage. Parts-per...
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  • quantity and its reference value, though a logarithm may be considered to be a dimensionless quantity. The reference values for each type of quantity...
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  • dimensional quantities are normalized against like-dimensioned quantities (called nondimensionalization), resulting in only dimensionless quantities remaining...
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    Mach number (category Dimensionless numbers of fluid mechanics)
    number (M or Ma), often only Mach, (/mɑːk/; German: [max]) is a dimensionless quantity in fluid dynamics representing the ratio of flow velocity past a...
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  • Volume fraction (category Dimensionless quantities of chemistry)
    vol%) is one way of expressing the composition of a mixture with a dimensionless quantity; mass fraction (percentage by weight, wt%) and mole fraction (percentage...
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    International System of Quantities, an angle is defined as a dimensionless quantity, and in particular, the radian unit is dimensionless. This convention impacts...
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    or 65.54 degrees. In the SI, solid angle is considered to be a dimensionless quantity, the ratio of the area projected onto a surrounding sphere and the...
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  • is simply the fugacity divided by a reference pressure to give a dimensionless quantity. This reference pressure is called the standard state and normally...
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    "number of revolutions" or "number of cycles") is formalized as a dimensionless quantity called rotation, defined as the ratio of a given angle and a full...
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  • Lorentz factor (category Dimensionless quantities)
    Lorentz factor or Lorentz term (also known as the gamma factor) is a dimensionless quantity expressing how much the measurements of time, length, and other...
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  • equations that allow the calculation of the Darcy friction factor, a dimensionless quantity used in the Darcy–Weisbach equation, for the description of friction...
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  • result in a dimensionless quantity, also known as ratio or simply as a rate (such as tax rates) or counts (such as literacy rate). Dimensionless rates can...
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  • Thermodynamic activity (category Dimensionless numbers of chemistry)
    Gilbert N. Lewis in 1907. By convention, activity is treated as a dimensionless quantity, although its value depends on customary choices of standard state...
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