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Word
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Definition
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| langley | A unit of illumination used to measure the temperature of a star. |
| liang | A Chinese measure of weight. |
| libra | A Roman pound. |
| ligne | A measure of watch movement. |
| lumen | A unit of luminous flux. |
| mach | A number indicating the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the surrounding medium. |
| maxwell | A unit of magnetic flux. |
| megarad | A measure of radiation, a million rads. |
| morgan | A unit of distance between genes on a chromosome. |
| nanogram | One billionth of a gram. |
| neper | A unit for expressing the ratio of two currents or voltages. |
| nepit | A unit of information, 1.44 bits. |
| newton | A unit of gravitational force. |
| oersted | A unit of magnetic field strength. |
| ohmage | Electrical resistance measured in ohms. |
| osmole | A unit of osmotic pressure. |
| parsec | A unit of astronomical distance. |
| pascal | A unit of pressure, one newton per square meter. |
| picogram | A millionth of a millionth of a gram. |
| picomole | A millionth of a millionth of a mole. |
| poundal | A unit of force, the force imparting to one pound mass an acceleration of one foot per second. |
| probit | A unit of measurement of statistical probability. |
| sabin | A unit of acoustic absorption. |
| sievert | The SI unit of radiation dose. |
| stilb | The cgs unit of intrinsic brightness. |
| teraflop | A unit of processing speed equal to 240 floating-point operations per second. |
| tesla | A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter. |
| therblig | A unit of work for quantifying industrial operations. |
| troland | A unit of measurement of retinal response to light. |
| weber | A unit of magnetic flux equal to 100 million maxwells. |