• Dimensionless quantities, also known as quantities of dimension one are implicitly defined in a manner that prevents their aggregation into units of measurement...
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  • underscoring its dimensionless nature. The number one is recognized as a dimensionless base quantity. Radians serve as dimensionless units for angular...
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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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  • well-known dimensionless quantities illustrating their variety of forms and applications. The tables also include pure numbers, dimensionless ratios, or...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    Reynolds number (category Dimensionless numbers)
    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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    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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  • 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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    also be expressed as radians per sampling interval, which is a dimensionless quantity. Angular frequency is frequency multiplied by 2π. Spatial frequency...
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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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    is dimensionally correct: standard relative atomic masses are dimensionless quantities (i.e., pure numbers) whereas molar masses have units (in this case...
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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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  • Mass fraction (chemistry) (category Dimensionless quantities of chemistry)
    (mass/volume). This is incorrect because the unit "%" can only be used for dimensionless quantities. Instead, the concentration should simply be given in units of...
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  • dimensional quantities are normalized against like-dimensioned quantities (called nondimensionalization), resulting in only dimensionless quantities remaining...
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    metrology) for ratio is the dimensionless quotient between two physical quantities measured with the same unit. A quotient of two quantities that are measured with...
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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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  • the transverse or lateral direction. It is a dimensionless quantity, as it is a ratio between two quantities of the same dimension. Poisson's Ratio defines...
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    the nation as a whole. The debt-to-GDP ratio is technically not a dimensionless quantity, but a unit of time, being equal to the amount of years over which...
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    Relative density (category Dimensionless quantities)
    Relative density, also called specific gravity, is a dimensionless quantity defined as the ratio of the density (mass of a unit volume) of a substance...
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    Drag coefficient (category Dimensionless numbers of fluid mechanics)
    {\displaystyle c_{x}} or c w {\displaystyle c_{\rm {w}}} ) is a dimensionless quantity that is used to quantify the drag or resistance of an object in...
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  • deformation to the original value of the parameter. Since strain is a dimensionless quantity, the units of δ {\displaystyle \delta } will be the same as the...
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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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    electric current is a fundamental quantity defined via Ampère's law and takes the permeability as a dimensionless quantity (relative permeability) whose value...
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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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