weight unit

Questions about weight unit

What does weight unit mean?

weight unit means "a decimal unit of weight based on the gram". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for weight unit?

Close synonyms include metric weight unit, weight. 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 weight unit a common word?

weight unit is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.