According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

One measurement at 40 Mc/sec was obtained with the Varian model Af unit.

The international unit is equipotent with the USP unit adopted in 1952, which was defined as the amount of activity present in 20 mg of the USP reference substance.

It was because of this chain-reaction as much as for any other reason -- that is, because of the growing independence of the planar unit in collage as a shape -- that the identity of depicted objects, or at least parts of them, re-emerged in Braque's and Picasso's papiers colles and continued to remain more conspicuous there -- but only as flattened silhouettes -- than in any of their paintings done wholly in oil before the end of 1913.

The dissolved oxygen in the aeration unit was consistently high until January 29, 1961.

The powerful microphone I could press against the wall between my motel unit and that occupied by the man would bring in the sound of any conversation, and I was positively nauseated I was so hungry.

Its power unit, however, was derived from the reactor of the more modern American nuclear submarine Skipjack.

The charge that the federal indictment of three Chicago narcotics detail detectives `` is the product of rumor, combined with malice, and individual enmity '' on the part of the federal narcotics unit here was made yesterday in their conspiracy trial before Judge Joseph Sam Perry in federal District court.

The ampere was originally defined as one tenth of the CGS system electromagnetic unit of current ( now known as the abampere ), the amount of current that generates a force of two dynes per centimetre of length between two wires one centimetre apart.

The size of the unit was chosen so that the units derived from it in the MKSA system would be conveniently sized.

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 ".

The " Are " was the original unit of area in the metric system, with ;

This value of the astronomical unit had to be obtained experimentally and so is was not known exactly.

With the definitions used before 2012, the astronomical unit was dependent on the heliocentric gravitational constant, that is the product of the gravitational constant G and the solar mass M < sub >☉</ sub >.

The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.

< li > A unit was sold in September 2009 for $ 17, 000 on eBay.

< li > A unit was sold on March 23, 2010 for $ 42, 766 on eBay.

An operator was needed to operate the control switches to set up its functions, much like the electro-mechanical calculators and unit record equipment of the time.

Its first Allied-appointed mayor, Franz Oppenhoff, was murdered by an SS commando unit.

The SS-TV was an independent unit within the SS with its own ranks and command structure.

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.

Where boundary maintenance describes the boundaries or limits of the group, systemic linkage is defined `` as the process whereby one or more of the elements of at least two social systems is articulated in such a manner that the two systems in some ways and on some occasions may be viewed as a single unit.

Cinematographic aspect ratios are usually denoted as a ( rounded ) decimal multiple of width vs unit height, while photographic and videographic aspect ratios are usually defined and denoted by whole number ratios of width to height.

In mathematics, the unit square is defined to have area one, and the area of any other shape or surface is a dimensionless real number.

The meter is defined to be a unit of proper length, but the SI definition does not specify the metric tensor to be used in determining it.

One unit of alcohol is defined as 10 millilitres in the United Kingdom, and as 10 grams ( 12. 7 ml ) in Australia.

In this case, the absolute magnitude is defined as the apparent magnitude that the object would have if it were one astronomical unit ( AU ) from both the Sun and the observer.

A model of computation may be defined in terms of an abstract computer, e. g., Turing machine, and / or by postulating that certain operations are executed in unit time.

* Bar ( unit ), a unit of pressure defined as 100 kilopascals

In data transmission systems a byte is defined as a contiguous sequence of binary bits in a serial data stream, such as in modem or satellite communications, which is the smallest meaningful unit of data.

In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics.

Although the candela is now defined in terms of the second ( an SI base unit ) and the watt ( a derived SI unit ), the candela remains a base unit of the SI system, by definition.

For instance, it defined chemical engineering to be a " science of itself, the basis of which is ... unit operations " in a 1922 report ; and with which principle, it had published a list of academic institutions which offered " satisfactory " chemical engineering courses.

If is any unit vector, the projection of the curl of F onto is defined to be the limiting value of a closed line integral in a plane orthogonal to as the path used in the integral becomes infinitesimally close to the point, divided by the area enclosed.

It was first defined by Nicolas Clément in 1824 as a unit of heat, entering French and English dictionaries between 1841 and 1867.

: ( pressure defined as force per unit area )

: ( dynamic viscosity defined as shear stress per unit velocity gradient ).

The modern Cartesian coordinate system in two dimensions ( also called a rectangular coordinate system ) is defined by an ordered pair of perpendicular lines ( axes ), a single unit of length for both axes, and an orientation for each axis.

In a two-story house, one unit may be installed in the basement to serve the first floor, another in the attic to cool the second.

According to one major producer, materials for a typical plastic sign are approximately 25% less costly than for a comparable neon unit.

`` Only one lumber dealer in ten is equipped to handle unit loads ; ;

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

only one producer in a hundred is equipped to package and ship unit loads ; ;

only one builder in a thousand is equipped to receive unit loads.

X-ray and experimental density showed one formula unit in the unit cell, corresponding to a paramagnetic ion density of Af.

A randomization of `` ups '' and `` downs '' is more likely than ordered `` ups '' and `` downs '' in position ( 3 ) since the hydrogen atoms are well separated and so the position of one could hardly affect the position of another, and also since ordered `` up '' and `` down '' implies a larger unit cell, for which no evidence exists.

At one astronomical unit from the sun ( the Earth's distance ) the dust orbits are probably nearly circular.

His view is that every religion pertains to a community, and, conversely, every community is in one aspect a religious unit.

This led to the conclusion ( Moseley's law ) that the atomic number does closely correspond ( with an offset of one unit for K-lines, in Moseley's work ) to the calculated electric charge of the nucleus, i. e. the proton number Z.

The ampere ( SI unit symbol: A ), often shortened to amp, is the SI unit of electric current ( quantity symbol: I, i ) and is one of the seven SI base units.

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.

* Social ethics, or ethics among nations and as one global unit

In the International System of Units ( SI ), the standard unit of area is the square metre ( written as m < sup > 2 </ sup >), which is the area of a square whose sides are one metre long.

The astronomical constant whose value is one astronomical unit is referred to as unit distance and is given the symbol A.

Three different types of punch cards were used: one for arithmetical operations, one for numerical constants, and one for load and store operations, transferring numbers from the store to the arithmetical unit or back.