Definition of Measuring unit

1. Noun. A unit of measurement.

Exact synonyms: Measuring Block
Generic synonyms: Unit, Unit Of Measurement

Lexicographical Neighbors of Measuring Unit

measurer
measurers
measures
measures of central tendency
measures of location
measuring
measuring block
measuring cup
measuring device
measuring instrument
measuring jug
measuring rod
measuring stick
measuring system
measuring tape
measuring unit (current term)
measuring worm
measuring worms
measuringly
meat-and-potatoes
meat-eating
meat-eating(a)
meat-packing business
meat-packing industry
meat-space
meat and potatoes
meat cleaver
meat counter

Literary usage of Measuring unit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Psychology of Number and Its Applications to Methods of Teaching Arithmetic by James Alexander McLellan, John Dewey (1905)
"In the constructive exercises already described, attention to measuring unit and its times of repetition must lead to the conscious recognition of this ..."

2. The Psychology of Number and Its Applications to Methods of Teaching Arithmetic by James Alexander McLellan, John Dewey (1895)
"In the constructive exercises already described, attention to measuring unit and its times of repetition must lead to the conscious recognition of this ..."

3. The Temple of Apollo Bassitas by Frederick A. Cooper (1996)
"While this is not an appropriate place to reconsider the Doric foot as a universal measuring unit, or even to summarize the bibliography on the topic, ..."

4. The Engineer's and Mechanic's Encyclopædia: Comprehending Practical by Luke Hebert (1836)
"The quantity assumed as unity, is called the measuring unit. ... If the proposed line be less than the measuring unit, whatever part that line is of the ..."

5. Political Economy: Designed for Use in Catholic Colleges, High Schools and by Edmund J. Burke (1913)
"Thus, if a measuring unit is twelve inches long, any object measured by it will have a certain length expressed in terms of the measuring unit. ..."

6. The Cost of Living by Walter Ernest Clark (1915)
"As a value-measuring unit they choose some definite amount of some given thing. ... The definite amount of gold used as the measuring unit is set ..."

7. Geodetic Surveying and the Adjustment of Observations (method of Least Squares) by Edward Lovering Ingram (1911)
"The absolute length of a measuring unit is generally stated as its designated length plus or minus a correction. The total correction will have the same ..."

8. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1920)
"... A PSYCHOLOGICAL measuring unit. ITS EVOLUTION AND FINAL STABILIZATION AS A SOCIAL FORCE It has been my experience to be frequently asked by physicians, ..."

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