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Averie Ferguson

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2022-03-27

Define Unit of Measurement.

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Cecilia Nolan

Beginner2022-03-28Added 13 answers

There are many measurements, like temperature, mass, speed, time, distance, etc. Each of these has certain units associated with it. Measurements always involve as comparison. When we say that a person is six feet tall, we’re really saying that the person is six times taller than a reference object that is 1 foot in length, where foot is an example of a unit of measurement. Both the number and the unit are essential parts of the measurement.
Without any unit, the measurements alone are not significant; in other words, they are senseless. Therefore, units are written with the measurements.A unit of measurement is defined as the quantity fixed as a convention by law. It is adopted as the standard way of expressing a physical quantity. If units are not written in front of the measurements, the data would be just a number.
For example:
Water gets evaporated, the temperature is recorded as 100. Also, the length of the bucket is 100. If these are written as

100 \dot{C}

and 100 m, it is understood that the former denotes the temperature and the latter denotes the length. The number alone is insignificant.
The units give a sense to the measurement as every physical quantity is measured in units.

Jared Kemp

Beginner2022-03-29Added 14 answers

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