Examples of use of unit of measurement
1. Government sources admit that talks over the metrification of road signs, pints and acres – terms covered under the commission‘s unit of measurement directive – are ongoing with Europe.
2. An SWU is a unit of measurement of the effort needed to separate the U–235 and U–238 atoms in natural uranium in order to create a final product that is richer in U–235 atoms.
3. A PacifiCorp spokesman said a Fish and Game report used the wrong unit of measurement, giving a false impression that too much waste was being discharged from the hatchery.
4. Stating the unit of measurement in several records had no relevance to the actual commodity, it said jewellery was quantified in ‘bags, bundles, centimeters, dozens, hectares, kms, litres, metres, packets, quintals and sheets’.
5. Researchers conducted 24–hour traces of electromagnetic fields in people‘s homes, but only looked at houses with fields of up 0.2 microtesla, the unit of measurement of magnetic induction.