Appendix:Weights and measures
Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary
[edit] Metric units
[edit] SI units
- See SI units
[edit] CGS units
- Length: centimetre, centimeter
- Wave number: kayser
- Acceleration: gal, galileo
- Mass: gram
- Time: second
- Force: dyne
- Energy: erg
- Heat energy: calorie
- Pressure: barye
- Kinematic viscosity: stokes
- Dynamic viscosity: poise
- Luminance: stilb
- Illumination: phot
- Electrical charge: esu, franklin, statcoulomb
- Electrical current: abampere, ampere, biot
- Electric potential: abvolt, statvolt
- Permeability: darcy
- Electric dipole moment: debye
- Magnetic field strength: oersted
- Magnetic flux: line, maxwell, unit pole
- Magnetic flux density, magnetic induction: gauss
- Magnetic dipole moment: emu
- Magnetomotive force: gilbert
- Heat transmission: langley
- Radiation dose: rad, rem (obsolete) , rep (former name for rad)
[edit] Units of the MKS system
[edit] Units of the MKSA system (the Giorgi system)
[edit] Other metric units
[edit] Units of length
[edit] Units of area
[edit] Units of volume/capacity
[edit] Units of mass
[edit] Units of angular measure
[edit] Units of energy/heat/work
- electronvolt
- Multiples:
- watt-hour
- Multiples:
[edit] Units of pressure
- atmosphere
- bar
- Multiples and submultiples:
- millimetre of mercury, millimeter of mercury
- standard atmosphere
- torr
[edit] Units of luminance
- lumen
- candela
- candle power
- watt
- Measured over areas:
[edit] Units of electrical charge
[edit] Units of power of a lens
[edit] Units of comparison of sound intensities, electrical currents or voltages
[edit] Units of radioactive activity
[edit] Units of dose of X-rays or gamma rays
[edit] Non-metric units
[edit] Units of the slug-foot-second system
[edit] Units of length
- barleycorn
- cable length
- chain
- cubit
- digit
- ell
- foot
- furlong
- hand
- inch
- ligne
- line
- link
- mil
- mile
- nail
- palm
- perch
- point
- pole
- rod
- shaftment
- span
- statute mile
- yard
[edit] Units of area
- acre
- hide
- rood
- section
- square foot
- square inch
- square mile
- square rod
- square yard
- virgate
- yardland, yard of land
[edit] Units of volume/capacity
- acre-foot
- barrel
- barrel-bulk
- boll
- bushel
- cubic foot
- cubic inch
- cubic yard
- cup
- dessertspoon, dessertspoonful
- firkin
- fluid drachm, fluid dram
- fluid ounce
- fluid scruple
- gallon
- gill
- heaped dessertspoon, heaped dessertspoonful
- heaped tablespoon, heaped tablespoonful
- heaped teaspoon, heaped teaspoonful
- hogshead
- kilderkin
- miner's inch
- minim
- peck
- pint
- pipe
- puncheon
- quart
- quarter
- quatern
- stick
- tablespoon, tablespoonful
- teaspoon, teaspoonful
- tierce
[edit] Units of volumetric flow
[edit] Units of angular measure
[edit] Units of mass
- cental
- chaldron
- drachm, dram
- dram apothecaries
- grain
- hundredweight
- long ton
- long hundredweight
- ounce
- ounce apothecaries
- ounce troy
- pennyweight
- pound
- pound apothecaries
- pound avoirdupois
- pound troy
- quarter
- quatern
- scruple
- short hundredweight
- short ton
- slug
- stone
- ton
- tonne (metric ton)
[edit] Units of force
[edit] Units of energy/heat/work
[edit] Units of intensity of ultraviolet light
[edit] Units of thermal resistance
[edit] Units of power
[edit] Units of temperature
[edit] Other units
[edit] Units of angular measure
[edit] Units of mass
[edit] Units of time
[edit] Units of angular velocity
[edit] Units of perceived loudness
[edit] Units of radioactive disintegration
[edit] Astronomical units
[edit] Computer memory
[edit] Nautical units
- cable-length, cable's-length
- fathom
- league
- international nautical mile
- knot
- last
- nautical mile
- sea mile
[edit] Output from reactor fuel
[edit] Specific units for various commodoties
[edit] Cloth
[edit] Flooring
[edit] Flour
[edit] Gemstones
[edit] Gold
[edit] Herrings
[edit] Hops
[edit] Paper
[edit] Silk, rayon and nylon
[edit] TNT
[edit] Wine
[edit] Wood
- board-foot
- hoppus foot, hoppus cubic foot
- stere
- Multiples and submultiples:
[edit] Wool
[edit] Yarn
[edit] Units used in particular countries
- Note: Units in this section are English names for units used in various countries. Please do not add non-English words here, but consider setting up an appendix for them in the appropriate language (such as Appendix:Weights and measures:Swedish).
