Unit of measurement
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Ten is the number which is the count of fingers and thumbs on both hands (or toes on the feet). "The English word digit as well as its translation in many languages is also the anatomical term for fingers and toes. In English, decimal (decimus < Lat.) means tenth, decimate means reduce by a tenth, and denary (denarius < Lat.) means the unit of ten." --Sholem Stein |
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A unit of measurement is a definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same kind of quantity.
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See also
- GNU Units
- List of humorous units of measurement
- List of obsolete units of measurement
- List of unusual units of measurement
- Metric units
- Numerical value equation
- Scottish units
- Seconds pendulum
- Space (punctuation)#Unit symbols and numbers
- System of measurement
- Unified Code for Units of Measure
- United States customary units
- Unit of account
- Units of information
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