In practical terms, the ampere is a measure of the amount of electric charge passing a point in an electric circuit per unit time with 6. 241 × 10 < sup > 18 </ sup > electrons, or one coulomb per second constituting one ampere.

Jean-Robert Argand introduced the term " module " ' unit of measure ' in French in 1806 specifically for the complex absolute value and it was borrowed into English in 1866 as the Latin equivalent " modulus ".

* French arpent — also used in Louisiana as length and area unit of measure

It is often stated that a unit of alcohol is supplied by a small glass of wine, half a pint of beer, or a single measure of spirits.

In Great Britain, a single pub measure ( 25 ml ) of a spirit contains one unit.

* Approximate digestibility, in study of dietary efficiency, a rough unit measure of the digestibility of animal feed

* The name in English of a ken, a Japanese unit of measure and proportion

In scientific contexts the Btu has largely been replaced by the SI unit of energy, the joule, though it may be used as a measure of agricultural energy production ( Btu / kg ).

The dyne per centimetre is the unit traditionally used to measure surface tension.

Historically, the electron volt was devised as a standard unit of measure through its usefulness in electrostatic particle accelerator sciences because a particle with charge q has an energy E = qV after passing through the potential V ; if q is quoted in integer units of the elementary charge and the terminal bias in volts, one gets an energy in eV.

Entropy is a thermodynamic property that is the measure of a system ’ s thermal energy per unit temperature that is unavailable for doing useful work.

The erlang ( symbol E ) is a dimensionless unit that is used in telephony as a measure of offered load or carried load on service-providing elements such as telephone circuits or telephone switching equipment.

A traditional unit of measure used with rotating mechanical devices is revolutions per minute, abbreviated RPM.

* Gamma is a non-SI metric unit of measure of mass equal to one microgram ( 1 μg ).

* Gamma is also a non-SI unit of measure of magnetic flux density, sometimes used in geophysics, equal to 1 nanotesla ( nT ).

One of the impacts of this directive was that the United Kingdom amended its own legislation to replace the gallon with the litre as a primary unit of measure in trade and in the conduct of public business, effective from 30 September 1995.

A German Government report on fuel prices dated 2010 / 11 stated that the Imperial gallon is used as a unit of measure for fuel in Guyana, United Arab Emirates and Antigua and Barbuda and the US gallon in Liberia, Belize, Colombia, The Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Myanmar ( Burma ), Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico and the United States.

The majority of readers gave the answer " gry ," an obsolete unit of measure invented by John Locke.

The natural unit of information was therefore the decimal digit, much later renamed the hartley in his honour as a unit or scale or measure of information.

Inductance is a measure of the amount of EMF generated per unit change in current.

* Kilometerton, abbreviated kmt, unit of measure

* Lambda is a non-SI metric unit of measure of volume ( symbol λ ) equal to one microliter ( 1 μL ) or one cubic millimeter ( 1 mm < sup > 3 </ sup >).

The k < sup > th </ sup > sub-range contains the values of r for which there is a stable cycle ( a cycle which attracts a set of initial points of unit measure ) of period This sequence of sub-ranges is called a cascade of harmonics.

The acre is a unit of area in a number of different systems, including the imperial and U. S. customary systems.

* Rood, an old English unit equal to quarter an acre

Shambu owns two bighas ( a unit of land measurement where 3 bighas is 1 acre ) of land, which is the only means of livelihood for the whole family.

Historically, however, the earliest systematic application of the cul-de-sac street type by Raymond Unwin ( 1909 ) had a unit density between 8 and 12 units per acre, considerably higher than mid-to-late 20th century.

* Rood, an Old English unit of area, equal to quarter of an acre

" UW professor Jerry Franklin ( who Hines describes as " the guiding force behind the crane ") says that the study demonstrates that temperate conifer forests are better at banking carbon than any other ecosystem in the world, certainly more than tropical forests on a per unit area basis, at least 178 tons per acre ( 40 kg / m².

Built in 1943, the original 835 rowhouse units were recently reconstructed ( completed in two phases between 1997 and 2000 ) The $ 45 million CHA-funded renovation reduced unit density per acre and increased unit sites, resulting in 330 units of public housing.

* Fuel load: the mass of combustible materials available for a fire usually expressed as weight of fuel per unit area ( e. g., 20 tons per acre ).

Lake St. Clair Metropark ( formerly Metro Beach Metropark ) is a 770 acre ( 3. 1 km² ) unit of the Huron-Clinton Metroparks system located roughly north of downtown Detroit, Michigan in Harrison Township, Macomb County.

* Kanal ( unit ), a unit of area equivalent to one-eighth of an acre, used in northern India and Pakistan.

Oyster Creek nuclear power station is a single unit 636 MWe boiling water reactor power plant located on an 800 acre ( 3. 2 km² ) site adjacent to the Oyster Creek in the Forked River section of Lacey Township in Ocean County, New Jersey.

The basic unit of measurement was the perch which was 5. 5 yards ( 5. 03 m ) and the plots can be identified today because they are in multiples of perches: at Cricklade most were 2 by 12 perches ( 10. 1 by 60. 4 m ), while at Charmouth in Dorset, a charter of the year 1320 provided plots 4 perches wide and 20 perches long ( about 20 by 100 m ), giving a typical plot size of half an acre ( 0. 2 hectare ), held at an annual rent of 6d.

A vergée, or vergee, is a unit of area, a quarter of the French acre.

At 0. 02 acre ( 80 m² ), the memorial is often referred to as America's smallest national park ( or unit of the National Park System ).

The connective system, or network, is tailored to meet the requirements of the objective, and it is therefore not surprising that a military body acting as a single coordinated unit has a different communication network than a factory, a college, or a rural village.

No action has been taken, however, on such major problems as ending the fee system, penal reform, modification of the county unit system and in outright banning of fireworks sales.

The automobile maintenance unit, or motor pool, came into existence in 1942 and has been responsible for centralized maintenance and management of state-owned transportation since that time.

only one box car in eight has the wide doors needed for unit loads ; ;

The international unit ( u. ), adopted to make possible the comparison of results from different laboratories ( Mussett and Perry, 1955 ), has been defined as the amount of activity present in 13.5 mg of the International Standard Preparation.

Whenever a congregation really sees itself as a unit in the universal Church, in vital relation with the whole Body of Christ and participating in His mission to the world, a necessary foundation-stone of the ecumenical movement has been laid.

Ramsey has a thing or two to mutter about himself, for the Dallas defensive unit turned in another splendid effort against Denver, and the Texans were able to whip the dangerous Broncs without the fullbacking of a top star, Jack Spikes, though he did the team's place-kicking while nursing a knee injury.

** The closed unit ball of the dual of a normed vector space over the reals has an extreme point.

Every unit of length has a corresponding unit of area, namely the area of a square with the given side length.

This may be called Volta's Law of capacitance, and likely for this work the unit of electrical potential has been named the volt.

* Each housing unit has living space that includes individual bedrooms, a common area, kitchen, and two bathrooms.

For example, if the sorted list to which we apply binary search has n elements, and we can guarantee that each lookup of an element in the list can be done in unit time, then at most log < sub > 2 </ sub > n + 1 time units are needed to return an answer.

It also has two outputs ( or inputs ) headphone jacks on the back of the unit, on the far left and far right sides.

* Economists use the term " global labor arbitrage " to refer to the tendency of manufacturing jobs to flow towards whichever country has the lowest wages per unit output at present and has reached the minimum requisite level of political and economic development to support industrialization.

* Indivisibility of certain goods: If a person wants to buy a certain amount of another's goods, but only has for payment one indivisible unit of another good which is worth more than what the person wants to obtain, a barter transaction cannot occur.

If a Banach algebra has unit 1, then 1 cannot be a commutator ; i. e., for any x, y ∈ A.

* In the movie Wag the Dog, the fictitious unit 303 Special Forces has a song created titled " The Men of the 303 " that is played to a deliberately similar but original tune written by Huey Lewis for the film.

At certain times, London has had no overall city government and boroughs were the main unit of local government for Londoners ; in Tokyo, they are known as wards or cities, and have city status, but these still form parts of a larger municipal government which has merged with that of the prefecture.

An array processor or vector processor has multiple parallel computing elements, with no one unit considered the " center ".

Since the introduction of the first commercially available microprocessor ( the Intel 4004 ) in 1970, and the first widely used microprocessor ( the Intel 8080 ) in 1974, this class of CPUs has almost completely overtaken all other central processing unit implementation methods.