Appendix:Weights and measures
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Metric units
[edit]SI units
[edit]- See SI units
CGS units
[edit]- 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)
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
[edit]- electronvolt
- Multiples:
- watt-hour
- Multiples:
Units of pressure
[edit]- atmosphere
- bar
- Multiples and submultiples:
- millimetre of mercury, millimeter of mercury
- standard atmosphere
- torr
Units of luminance
[edit]- lumen
- candela
- candle power
- watt
- Measured over areas:
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
[edit]- 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
Units of area
[edit]- acre
- hide
- rood
- section
- square foot
- square inch
- square mile
- square rod
- square yard
- virgate
- yardland, yard of land
Units of volume/capacity
[edit]- 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
Units of volumetric flow
[edit]Units of angular measure
[edit]Units of mass
[edit]- 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)
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
[edit]- cable-length, cable's-length
- fathom
- league
- international nautical mile
- knot
- last
- nautical mile
- sea mile
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
[edit]- board-foot
- hoppus foot, hoppus cubic foot
- stere
- Multiples and submultiples:
Wool
[edit]Yarn
[edit]Units used in particular countries
[edit]- 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:sv:Weights and measures for Swedish).
Chinese units
[edit]Egyptian units
[edit]French units
[edit]German units
[edit]Greek units
[edit]Hebrew units
[edit]Indian units
[edit]Japanese units
[edit]Length
[edit]Mass
[edit]Area
[edit]Volume
[edit]Persian units
[edit]Roman units
[edit]Russian units
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