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. |