Wiktionary Appendix: Weights and measures
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Metric units
SI units
- See SI units
CGS units
- Length: centimetre, centimeter
- Wave number: kayser
- Acceleration: gal, galileo
- Mass: gram
- Time: second
- Force: dyne
- Energy: erg
- Heat energy: calorie
- Pressure: barye
- Kinematic viscosity: stokes
- Dynamic viscosity: poise
- Luminance: stilb
- Illumination: phot
- Electrical charge: esu, franklin, statcoulomb
- Electrical current: abampere, ampere, biot
- Electric potential: abvolt, statvolt
- Permeability: darcy
- Electric dipole moment: debye
- Magnetic field strength: oersted
- Magnetic flux: line, maxwell, unit pole
- Magnetic flux density, magnetic induction: gauss
- Magnetic dipole moment: emu
- Magnetomotive force: gilbert
- Heat transmission: langley
- Radiation dose: rad, rem (obsolete) , rep (former name for rad)
Units of the MKS system
Units of the MKSA system (the Giorgi system)
Units of the slug-foot-second system
Other metric units
Units of length
- angstrom
- fermi
- mil
Units of area
Units of volume/capacity
- litre, liter
- Multiples and submultiples:
- centilitre, centiliter
- decalitre, decaliter
- decilitre, deciliter
- hectolitre, hectoliter
- kilolitre, kiloliter
- millilitre, milliliter
- mil
Units of mass
- crith
- quintal
Units of angular measure
- gon, grade
Units of mass
- metric carat
Units of energy/heat/work
- electronvolt
- Multiples:
- gigaelectronvolt
- kiloelectronvolt
- megaelectronvolt
- watt-hour
- Multiples:
- kilowatt-hour
Units of pressure
- atmosphere
- bar
- Multiples and submultiples:
- kilobar
- microbar
- millibar
- millimetre of mercury, millimeter of mercury
- standard atmosphere
- torr
Units of luminance
- lambert
Units of electrical charge
- ampere hour
- faraday
Units of electrical conductance
Units of reciprocal inductance
Units of elastance
Units of power of a lens
- dioptre, diopter
Units of comparison of sound intensities, electrical currents or voltages
Units of radioactive activity
- curie
Units of dose of X-rays or gamma rays
- röntgen, roentgen
Non-metric units
Units of length
- barleycorn
- cable length
- chain
- cubit
- digit
- ell
- foot
- furlong
- hand
- inch
- ligne
- line
- link
- mil
- mile
- nail
- palm
- perch
- point
- pole
- rod
- shaftment
- span
- statute mile
- yard
Units of area
- acre
- hide
- rood
- section
- square foot
- square inch
- square mile
- square rod
- square yard
- virgate
- yardland, yard of land
Units of volume/capacity
- acre-foot
- barrel
- barrel-bulk
- boll
- bushel
- cubic foot
- cubic inch
- cubic yard
- cup
- dessertspoon, dessertspoonful
- firkin
- fluid drachm, fluid dram
- fluid ounce
- fluid scruple
- gallon
- gill
- heaped dessertspoon, heaped dessertspoonful
- heaped tablespoon, heaped tablespoonful
- heaped teaspoon, heaped teaspoonful
- hogshead
- kilderkin
- miner's inch
- minim
- peck
- pint
- pipe
- puncheon
- quart
- quarter
- quatern
- stick
- tablespoon, tablespoonful
- teaspoon, teaspoonful
- tierce
Units of volumetric flow
- cusec
Units of angular measure
- mil
Units of mass
- cental
- chaldron
- drachm, dram
- dram apothecaries
- grain
- hundredweight
- long ton
- long hundredweight
- ounce
- ounce apothecaries
- ounce troy
- pennyweight
- pound
- pound apothecaries
- pound avoirdupois
- pound troy
- quarter
- quatern
- scruple
- short hundredweight
- short ton
- stone
- ton
Units of force
- poundal
- pound-force
Units of energy/heat/work
- British thermal unit
- calorie
- Calorie, kilocalorie
- foot-pound, foot-pound force
- lamp-hour
- therm
Units of thermal resistance
- R-value
- tog
Units of power
Units of temperature
- degree Fahrenheit
- degree Rankine
Other units
Units of angular measure
Units of mass
- atomic mass unit
Units of time
Units of angular velocity
- revolution per minute
- revolution per second
Units of perceived loudness
- phon
- sone
Units of radioactive disintegration
- rutherford
Astronomical units
- astronomical unit
- international candle
- light year
- parsec
- standard candle
Computer memory
- bit
- Multiples:
- kilobit
- megabit
- gigabit
- terabit
- petabit
- exabit
- byte
- Multiples:
- gigabyte
- kilobyte
- megabyte
- terabyte
- petabyte
- exabyte
- nibble, nybble
- word
Nautical units
- cable-length, cable's-length
- fathom
- league
- international nautical mile
- knot
- last
- nautical mile
- sea mile
Output from reactor fuel
- megawatt day per tonne
Specific units for various commodoties
Cloth
- cloth-yard
Flooring
Flour
- boll
Gemstones
- carat
Gold
- carat, karat
Herrings
- cran
Hops
- hop-pocket
Paper
Silk, rayon and nylon
- denier
TNT
- kiloton
- megaton
Wine
- balthazar
- jeroboam
- magnum
- methuselah
- nebuchadnezzar
- rehoboam
- salmanazar, salmanaser
Wood
- board-foot
- hoppus foot, hoppus cubic foot
- stere
- Multiples and submultiples:
- centistere
- decastere
- decistere
- hectostere
Wool
Yarn
Units used in particular countries
Chinese units
Egyptian units
- ardeb
French units
- arpent
- chopin
- livre
- muid
- toise
German units
- centner
- pfund
Greek units
Hebrew units
Indian units
Japanese units
Persian units
- parasang
Roman units
- modius
- semuncia
Russian units
- arsheen, arshin, arshine
- centner
- dessiatine, dessyatine, desyatin
- pood
- sazhen
- verst
Scottish units
- chalder
- chopin
- lispound
- mutchkin
Turkish units
- arsheen, arshin, arshine
- oke
Units used in various countries
Biblical units
- cubit
- gerah
- mina
- talent
