unit of measurement

collocation in English

meaningsofunitandmeasurement

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unit
noun
uk
/ˈjuː.nɪt/us
/ˈjuː.nɪt/
a single thing or a separate part of ...
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measurement
noun
uk
/ˈmeʒ.ə.mənt/us
/ˈmeʒ.ɚ.mənt/
the act or process ...
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(Definition ofunitandmeasurementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofunit of measurement

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By and large, aunitofmeasurementdenoting a specific weight does not normally go with thanks.
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Because latent variables are unobserved, they have no definite scales, making both the origin and theunitofmeasurementof such variables arbitrary.
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The absolute value and theunitofmeasurementare not important at this design stage.
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In the gynecological milieu, the week as aunitofmeasurementtoday provides the hegemonic (perhaps the only) discourse.
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In the present study, theunitofmeasurementon the lower level is that of the individual respondent.
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The same groups were adopted for the returns of 1811 and 1821, although theunitofmeasurementhad become the family.
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Theunitofmeasurementon the higher level is that of the 13 centres.
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Malabsorption was less apparent when the weight of the region was used as theunitofmeasurement.
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The values assumed by the patches parameters must not be documented in aunitofmeasurementof a particular system but in a standard unit.
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Abbreviations should be spelled out when first used in the text unless it is a standardunitofmeasurement.
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Fields were chosen as the primaryunitofmeasurement.
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Theunitofmeasurementin the study was a cefotaxime prescription alone or in combination with another antibiotic.
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Establishing population figures for the town is problematic due to changes in theunitofmeasurement.
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On the right-hand side, it calibrates present discounted utility to make it commensurate with present consumption as the standardisedunitofmeasurement.
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Contemporaries themselves were frequently unaware of many shifts in custom and belief, for which the brief span of a lifetime is a deceptiveunitofmeasurement.
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The clumps into which items are sorted, or belong, might be said to reflect the smallestunitofmeasurementfor purposes of comparison in terms of the covering consideration.
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Some have looked at the exposure to particular constructions types, irrespective of lexical content, others take the word (and the context it appears in) as aunitofmeasurement.
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An object will possess certain values of these magnitudes; call their sum (picking someunitofmeasurement) the object's total hue (analogous to a rectangle's size in the previous example).
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We write most of our long-term contracts in terms of dollars, aunitofmeasurementthat changes through time, and that is just a changing yardstick.
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For this popular dish, the eye is theunitofmeasurement.
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