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Axiom of probability theory
Unit measure is an axiom of probability theory that states that the probability of the entire sample space is equal to one (unity); that is, P(S)=1 where
Unit_measure
Quantity standard
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
Unit_of_measurement
System of measurements
defining the imperial system of units is given in the Weights and Measures Act 1985 (as amended). The Weights and Measures Act 1824 was initially scheduled
Imperial_units
Power supply and voltage/current measurement unit
source measure unit (SMU) is a type of electronic test equipment which can source voltage and current and measure them as it does so. The source measure unit
Source_measure_unit
Units of measurement commonly used in the U.S.
English units that were in use in the British Empire before the U.S. became an independent country. The United Kingdom's system of measures evolved by
United_States_customary_units
System of measurement used in Ancient Rome
vessels measure an identical volume, and scholarly opinion on the actual volume ranges between 500 and 580 ml (17–20 US fl oz). The core volume units are:
Ancient Roman units of measurement
Ancient_Roman_units_of_measurement
Topics referred to by the same term
up unit of measure in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Unit of measure most commonly refers to units of measurement in weights and measures. Unit of measure
Unit of measure (disambiguation)
Unit_of_measure_(disambiguation)
Traditional system of measurement used by Han Chinese
were also used as a measure of monthly and annual salary, particularly for official posts in the imperial bureaucracy. The volume units have evolved through
Chinese_units_of_measurement
Units that are not part of a coherent system
board standard used to measure the horizontal width of rack-mounted electronic equipment, similar to the rack unit (U) used to measure vertical heights of
List of non-coherent units of measurement
List_of_non-coherent_units_of_measurement
Textile term; coiled or wrapped unit of yarn or twine
industry, a sheep, lamb or hog sausage casing is sold by the hank. This unit of measure equals 100 yards (91 m). Marie Clayton (10 December 2007). The Ultimate
Hank_(unit_of_measure)
Collection of units of measurement and rules relating them to each other
all units of area, volume, and derived units such as density were derived from these two base units. Mesures usuelles (French for customary measures) were
System of units of measurement
System_of_units_of_measurement
SI derived unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation
matter. It is used as a unit of the radiation quantity absorbed dose that measures the energy deposited by ionizing radiation in a unit mass of absorbing material
Gray_(unit)
Circle with radius of one
{\displaystyle |z|^{2}=z{\bar {z}}=x^{2}+y^{2}=1.} The complex unit circle can be parametrized by angle measure θ {\displaystyle \theta } from the positive real axis
Unit_circle
System of codes for unambiguously representing measurement units
The Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM) is a system of codes for unambiguously representing measurement units. Its primary purpose is machine-to-machine
Unified Code for Units of Measure
Unified_Code_for_Units_of_Measure
Traditional Chinese unit of weight
with the liang as the base unit. On 16 February 1929, the Nationalist government adopted and promulgated The Weights and Measures Act to adopt the metric
Jin_(mass)
SI derived unit of angle
rad, is the dimensionless unit of angle in the International System of Units (SI) and is the standard unit of angular measure used in many areas of mathematics
Radian
Systems for measuring textiles
measures approximately 0.48 cubic metres (17 ft3) and weighs 226.8 kg (500 lb). In India, a bale equals 170 kg (370 lb). Not a true unit of measure,
Units_of_textile_measurement
Standard numerical measure used to value and compare goods and services
and other transactions. Also known as a measure of relative worth and a standard of deferred payment, a unit of account is a necessary prerequisite for
Unit_of_account
Customary unit of length
into disuse. In 790 Charlemagne attempted to reform the units of measure in his domains. His units of length were based on the toise and in particular the
Foot_(unit)
Unit of mass
the same unit commonly used to measure the amount of moisture in the air, also known as the absolute humidity. The SI unit used to measure particulate
Grain_(unit)
Order of magnitude indicator
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
Metric_prefix
Unit of measure for digital data
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
Units_of_information
Feudal unit measure of land
In feudal Anglo-Norman England and Ireland, a knight's fee was a unit measure of land deemed sufficient to support a knight. It would not only provide
Knight's_fee
Unit of catalytic activity
The enzyme unit or international unit (symbol U or IU) is a unit measuring an enzyme's catalytic activity. An enzyme unit is defined as the amount of the
Enzyme_unit
Flexible ruler used to measure size or distance
A tape measure or measuring tape is a long, flexible ruler used to measure length or distance. It usually consists of a ribbon of cloth, plastic, fibreglass
Tape_measure
Spanish and Portuguese units of measurement
a unit of land measure in Honduras. Caballería, a unit of land measure in Cuba. Quiñón, a unit of land measure in the Philippines. Tahúlla, a unit of
Spanish_units_of_measurement
Traditional system of measurement used in Imperial Russia
p. 2011. Cardarelli, F. (2004). Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures: Their SI Equivalences and Origins (2nd ed.). Springer. pp. 120–124
Historical Russian units of measurement
Historical_Russian_units_of_measurement
English (pre 1824), Imperial (post 1824) and US Customary (post 1776) units of measure
traced back to Ancient Roman units of measurement, and Carolingian and Saxon units of measure. The US Customary system of units was developed and used in
Imperial and US customary measurement systems
Imperial_and_US_customary_measurement_systems
2000 studio album by Tony Rice Unit
Unit of Measure is an album by American guitarist Tony Rice, released in 2000. It is credited to The Tony Rice Unit. "Manzanita" (Tony Rice) – 3:53 "House
Unit_of_Measure_(album)
During centuriation (Ancient Roman land surveying), centuria was a basic unit of area, representing a square of 20 actus (710 meters, 2400 Roman feet)
Centuria_(unit_of_measure)
Mean distance between Earth and the Sun
before its modern redefinition in 2012. The astronomical unit is used primarily for measuring distances within the Solar System or around other stars.
Astronomical_unit
Modern form of the metric system
and Measures (abbreviated BIPM from French: Bureau international des poids et mesures) coordinates the SI. The SI comprises a coherent system of units of
International_System_of_Units
Metric system prefix meaning one tenth
System of Units (SI). A frequent use of the prefix is in the unit deciliter (dl), common in food recipes; many European homes have a deciliter measure for flour
Deci-
Traditional Chinese unit of distance
represent a fixed measure but could be longer or shorter depending on the effort required to cover the distance. This traditional unit, in terms of historical
Li_(unit)
SI derived unit of pressure
pascal was adopted for the SI unit newton per square metre (N/m2) by the 14th General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1971. The pascal is defined
Pascal_(unit)
Quantity of a three-dimensional space
Volume is a measure of regions in three-dimensional space. It is often quantified numerically using SI derived units (such as the cubic metre and litre)
Volume
Shape containing unit line segments in all directions
containing a translate of every k-dimensional unit disk which has Lebesgue measure zero. That is, if B denotes the unit ball centered at zero, for every k-dimensional
Kakeya_set
Unit of length
the Ancient Roman unit, the pertica. The measure also has a relationship with the military pike of about the same size. Both measures date from the sixteenth
Rod_(unit)
Period when a computer system is available
Uptime is a measure of system reliability, expressed as the period of time a machine, typically a computer, has been continuously working and available
Uptime
Unit of measure for equipment frames
A rack unit (abbreviated U or RU) is a unit of measure defined as 1+3⁄4 inches (44.45 mm). It is most frequently used as a measurement of the overall
Rack_unit
Metric unit of mass
become by far the more common. UK law regulating the units to be used when trading by weight or measure does not prevent the use of either spelling. In the
Kilogram
Measure of distance in physical space
speaks of units of length, the word length is synonymous with distance. There are several units that are used to measure length. Historically, units of length
Length
system G counting system evolved into area measurements. A special unit measuring brick quantity by area was called the brick-garden (Cuneiform: SIG.SAR
Ancient Mesopotamian units of measurement
Ancient_Mesopotamian_units_of_measurement
Unit of volume of wood
The cord is a unit of measure of dry volume used to measure firewood and pulpwood in the United States and Canada. A cord is the amount of wood that,
Cord_(unit)
Figure formed by two rays meeting at a common point
full angle (see § Measuring angles), but in such a way that its measure is 2π rad, approximately 6.28 rad. Historically the degree unit was chosen such
Angle
System of units formerly used in England
English units were replaced by the Imperial system in 1826, under a Weights and Measures Act passed in 1824 which retained many though not all of the unit names
English_units_of_measurement
SI derived unit of illuminance
Illuminance is a measure of how much luminous flux is spread over a given area. One can think of luminous flux (with the unit lumen) as a measure of the total
Lux
Grains were not weighed. Special hour-glass shaped measure were used to determine the volume. Smallest unit = 1 Nilve 2 Nilve = 1 Kolve 2 Kolve = 1 Chipte
Indian_units_of_measurement
decorative vessel on special occasions is mentionend several times. As measuring unit a Stauf, also written Stauff (Low-German: Stoff, Swedish: Stop, Icelandic:
Stauf_(measuring_unit)
Measurement of radiation exposure
erg/g, as the unit of measure of the new radiation quantity absorbed dose. The rad was expressed in coherent cgs units. In 1975 the unit gray was named
Roentgen_(unit)
Generalization of mass, length, area and volume
1])=1} ; and every other measure with these properties extends the Lebesgue measure. The arc length of an interval on the unit circle in the Euclidean
Measure_(mathematics)
Traditional system of measurement used in Japan
measures of the Tang dynasty in 701. Following the 1868 Meiji Restoration, Imperial Japan adopted the metric system and defined the traditional units
Japanese_units_of_measurement
Unit of solid angle
(deg2) is a non-SI unit measure of solid angle. Other denotations include sq. deg. and (°)2. Just as degrees are used to measure parts of a circle, square
Square_degree
Unit of length 1/1000 of a metre
(American spelling) is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one thousandth of a metre, the SI base unit of length. 1 metre =
Millimetre
Kitchen utensil to measure volume of cooking ingredients
cup (unit, with varying definitions) with its fractions (typically 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, and 3/4), pints, and often fluid ounces. Dry measure cups
Measuring_cup
Unit of energy
The British thermal unit (Btu) is a unit of measure of heat, which is a form of energy. It was originally defined as the amount of heat required to raise
British_thermal_unit
Unit of area
69.57 yards, or 208 feet 9 inches (63.61 metres), on a side. As a unit of measure, an acre has no prescribed shape; any area of 43,560 square feet is
Acre
Obsolete units of measurement formerly used in Scotland
Scottish or Scots units of measurement are the weights and measures peculiar to Scotland which were nominally replaced by English units in 1685 but continued
Scottish_units_of_measurement
Units of measurement in Jewish religious texts
Although they both use the log as the basic unit, the Israelites differentiated their systems of volume measure between dry and liquid states. For dry measurement
Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement
Biblical_and_Talmudic_units_of_measurement
Cooking measure of volume
actual drinking cups may differ greatly from the size of this unit, standard measuring cups may be used, with a metric cup commonly being rounded up to
Cup_(unit)
System of measurement used in Ancient Egypt
scribe to solve for their exact lengths. The setat was the basic unit of land measure and may originally have varied in size across Egypt's nomes. Later
Ancient Egyptian units of measurement
Ancient_Egyptian_units_of_measurement
Unconventional units of measurement intended as humor
the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The unit is used to measure the length of the Harvard Bridge. Canonically, and originally,
List of humorous units of measurement
List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement
Units of volume for non-liquid commodities
Dry measures are units of volume to measure bulk commodities that are not fluids and that were typically shipped and sold in standardized containers such
Dry_measure
Unit of measurement for measuring volume or capacity
A unit of volume is a unit of measurement for measuring volume or capacity, the extent of an object or space in three dimensions. Units of capacity may
Unit_of_volume
SI unit of length
metre (for the French unit mètre) began at least as early as 1790. During the French Revolution, the traditional units of measure were to be replaced by
Metre
Unit of mass
The slug is a derived unit of mass in a weight-based system of measures, most notably within the British Imperial measurement system and the United States
Slug_(unit)
Metric unit of area
world for the measurement of large areas of land, and it is the legal unit of measure in some domains concerned with land ownership, planning, and management
Hectare
Imperial and US customary unit
(abbreviation: bsh. or bu.) is an imperial and US customary unit of volume, based upon an earlier measure of dry capacity. The old bushel was used mostly for
Bushel
Non-SI unit measuring absorbed dose of ionizing radiation
non-SI units: Becquerel Curie (unit) Radiation Gray (unit) Roentgen (unit) Roentgen equivalent man (rem) Sievert Order of magnitude (unit) "Measuring Radiation"
Rad_(radiation_unit)
Units of measurement based on human body lengths
person for a day. Hathy - Arabic unit for amount of sand or water collected in a one-hand swipe. Garn - unit of measure for symptoms resulting from space
List of human-based units of measurement
List_of_human-based_units_of_measurement
SI unit of temperature
purposes. Specifically, "the numerical measure of temperature shall be simply the mechanical equivalent of the thermal unit divided by Carnot's function." To
Kelvin
Unit of mass
ounce is still a standard unit in the United States. In the United Kingdom it ceased to be an independent unit of measure in 2000, but may still be seen
Ounce
minor commerce, as well as in the household to measure meal, grain, and such. These units of measure were officially valid in Saxony until 1868, when
German_units_of_measurement
Generalization of volume to non-integer number of dimensions
{\displaystyle \lambda _{d}} , which is normalized so that the Lebesgue measure of the unit cube [0,1]d is 1. In fact, for any Borel set E, λ d ( E ) = 2 − d
Hausdorff_measure
SI unit of magnetic field strength
equal to one weber per square metre. The unit was announced during the General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1960 and is named in honour of Serbian-American
Tesla_(unit)
Force on a mass due to gravity
are marked in weight units, but since the weights are calibrated at the factory for standard gravity, the balance will measure standard weight, i.e.
Weight
A unique alphanumeric code used to track inventory
inventory management, a stock keeping unit (abbreviated as SKU, pronounced es-kay-YOU or SKEW) is the unit of measure in which the stocks of a material are
Stock_keeping_unit
Reference value of length
p. 245. ISBN 9781885073723. Judson, Lewis Van Hagen (1960). Units of Weight and Measure (United States Customary and Metric): Definitions and Tables
Unit_of_length
"Pushed forward" from one measurable space to another
In measure theory, a pushforward measure (also known as push forward, push-forward or image measure) is obtained by transferring ("pushing forward") a
Pushforward_measure
Unit of mass used in the Ottoman Empire
[batˈman]) was a unit of mass used in the Ottoman Empire and among Turkic peoples of the Russian Empire. It has also been recorded as a unit of area in Uyghur-speaking
Batman_(unit)
Culinary measurement unit
Breakfast cup Cup (unit)#British cup Coffee cup (unit) Wine glass#Capacity measure Cooking weights and measures 'Measure for Measure Archived 2024-12-07
Teacup_(unit)
Topics referred to by the same term
a decimalized unit measure of data storage, equalling 1000 bytes. Kilobyte may also refer to: Kibibyte (KiB) an idiomatic unit measure of data storage
Kilobyte_(disambiguation)
Measure of total value one, generalizing probability distributions
mathematics, a probability measure is a real-valued function defined on a set of events in a σ-algebra that satisfies measure properties such as countable
Probability_measure
number of units of measure were defined as base units, and all other units of measure, called derived units, were defined in terms of the base units. Maxwell
History_of_the_metric_system
1986 studio album by Icehouse
Measure for Measure is the fourth studio album by the Australian rock band Icehouse, released in April 1986 in Australia by Regular Records and in the
Measure_for_Measure_(album)
Topics referred to by the same term
units, used predominantly in the United States. Imperial units, used predominantly in Britain. The standard score in statistics is a signed measure of
Standard_units
Series of units for volume measurement
interchangeably with barrel. Since medieval times, the term barrel as a unit of measure has had various meanings throughout Europe, ranging from about 100 litres
Barrel_(unit)
Traditional system of measurement used by the Mongolians
Mongolian units are the traditional units of measurement of the Mongolian people. Chinese, Taiwanese, Hong Kong, Korean, Japanese, & Vietnamese units of measure
Mongolian_units
Unit of length
fathom is a unit of length in the imperial and U.S. customary systems equal to 6 feet (1.8288 m) or two yards. It was used especially for measuring the depth
Fathom
mathematics, a locally finite measure is a measure for which every point of the measure space has a neighbourhood of finite measure. Let ( X , T ) {\displaystyle
Locally_finite_measure
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 used
Dutch_units_of_measurement
Ancient Indian unit of distance
krosh, and krosha, is a unit of measurement which is derived from a Sanskrit term, क्रोश krośa, which means a 'call', as the unit was supposed to represent
Kos_(unit)
Arabic units and some to Sicilian units. The Weights and Measures Ordinance of 1921 established uniformity in the conversion of such weights and measures. All
Maltese_units_of_measurement
Process of assigning numbers to objects or events
measures originate in the 3rd or 4th millennium BC. The measurement of a property may be categorised by the following criteria: type, magnitude, unit
Measurement
English unit of length
unit of length, variously reckoned as 1⁄10, 1⁄12, 1⁄16, or 1⁄40 of an inch. It was not included among the units defined in the Weights and Measures Act
Line_(unit)
Traditional measure for quality of handmade or knotted pile carpets
is a traditional measure for quality of handmade or knotted pile carpets. It refers to the number of knots, or knot count, per unit of surface area -
Knot_density
Unit of force in physics
the applied force. The units "metre per second squared" can be understood as measuring a rate of change in velocity per unit of time, i.e. an increase
Newton_(unit)
Topics referred to by the same term
Rack unit, a unit of measure most commonly used to define the size of certain computing equipment Unit testing, a method by which individual units of source
Unit
Traditional system of measurement used in Poland
The traditional Polish units of measurement included two uniform yet distinct systems of weights and measures, as well as a number of related systems borrowed
Polish_units_of_measurement
Topics referred to by the same term
Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation, describing waves Kilogram-force ("kilopond"), a unit measure of force KP, the equilibrium constant expressed in terms of partial pressures
KP
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