unit of measurement

1. 1.

   any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange

   “the dollar is the United States unit of currency”

   “a unit of wheat is a bushel”

   “change per unit volume”

   Synonymsunit

   Broaderdefinite quantity

   Narrowermeasuring unitdenierdiopterkaratabsorption unitacceleration unitangular unitarea unitvolume unitcomputer memory unit

Questions about unit of measurement

What does unit of measurement mean?

unit of measurement means "any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange".

What is another word for unit of measurement?

Close synonyms include unit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is unit of measurement a common word?

unit of measurement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.