Unit of measurement

<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Unit of measurement | md:term</title> <meta name="robots" content="all" /> <meta name="distribution" content="global" /> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /> <link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.webmanifest"> <link rel="shortcut icon" sizes="16x16 32x32" href="/files/logo/mdterm-32px.png" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" sizes="64x64" href="/files/logo/mdterm-64px.png" /> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="256x256" href="/files/logo/mdterm-256px.png" /> <meta name="theme-color" content="#048" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/term.min.css?v00040" /> <meta name="description" content="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...." /> <script src="/tracking.js?v00040" type="text/javascript" async></script> <link rel="canonical" href="https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/tag/21579?lang=en" hreflang="en" /> <link rel="alternate" href="https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/tag/21579?lang=de" hreflang="de" /> </head> <body class="threeCol"> <main> <h1>Unit of measurement</h1> <header> <h3>Query URLs</h3> <code> https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/tag/21579 </code> </header> <hr /> <div id="formats"> <a href="https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/tag/21579/json">JSON</a> <a href="https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/tag/21579/skos">SKOS</a> <a href="https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/tag/21579/navigator" class="alternative_view">Navigator</a> <a href="/md-de/tag/tree#21579">Tree</a> </div> <div class="basic_data"> <section id="base"> <dl> <dt>Note</dt> <dd>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. Any other quantity of that kind can be expressed as a multiple of the unit of measurement.<br /> <br /> For example, a length is a physical quantity. The metre (symbol m) is a unit of length that represents a definite predetermined length. For instance, when referencing "10聽metres" (or 10聽m), what is actually meant is 10 times the definite predetermined length called "metre".<br /> <br /> The definition, agreement, and practical use of units of measurement have played a crucial role in human endeavour from early ages up to the present. A multitude of systems of units used to be very common. Now there is a global standard, the International System of Units (SI), the modern form of the metric system.</dd> </dl> </section> <section id="objects"><a id="search_museum_digital" href="https://global.museum-digital.org/objects?tag_id=21579">Search for this on museum-digital</a> <ul> <li> <figure><a href="https://global.museum-digital.org/object/87583"><img src="https://asset.museum-digital.org/san/images/201512/200w_03115738082.jpg" alt="Elle, Elisabet R枚hleken, 1828" /></a> </figure> <div> <h4>Elle, Elisabet R枚hleken, 1828</h4> <p>Die viereckige Elle hat einen...</p> <p class="image_information"> <a href="https://global.museum-digital.org/object/87583">Object information</a> <br />Image: Museum Wolmirstedt - RR-F</p> </div> </li> <li> <figure><a href="https://global.museum-digital.org/object/97497"><img src="https://asset.museum-digital.org/brandenburg/images/201604/200w_28121817470.jpg" alt="Lotma脽" /></a> </figure> <div> <h4>Lotma脽</h4> <p>Das Lot war eine Ma脽einheit...</p> <p class="image_information"> <a href="https://global.museum-digital.org/object/97497">Object information</a> <br />Image: Museum f眉r Stadtgeschichte Templin - CC BY-NC-SA</p> </div> </li> <li> <figure><a href="https://global.museum-digital.org/object/173042"><img src="https://asset.museum-digital.org/brandenburg/images/201702/200w_11135159171.jpg" alt="Zinnkrug" /></a> </figure> <div> <h4>Zinnkrug</h4> <p>Der Zinnkrug gelangte im Zuge...</p> <p class="image_information"> <a href="https://global.museum-digital.org/object/173042">Object information</a> <br />Image: Museum f眉r Stadtgeschichte Templin - CC BY-NC-SA</p> </div> </li> <li> <figure><a href="https://global.museum-digital.org/object/1435840"><img src="https://asset.museum-digital.org/westfalen/images/46/9003-0001-4162/maSsstab/200w_maSsstab-9003.jpg" alt="Ma脽stab" /></a> </figure> <div> <h4>Ma脽stab</h4> <p>Der h枚lzerne Ma脽stab, ein...</p> <p class="image_information"> <a href="https://global.museum-digital.org/object/1435840">Object information</a> <br />Image: LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen - CC BY-NC-SA</p> </div> </li> <li> <figure><a href="https://global.museum-digital.org/object/1784566"><img src="https://asset.museum-digital.org/westfalen/images/57/12081-1986-77/gewichte_muenzwaage/200w_gewichte-muenzwaage-12081.jpg" alt="Gewichte M眉nzwaage" /></a> </figure> <div> <h4>Gewichte M眉nzwaage</h4> <p>Konvolut aus 23 verschiedenen...</p> <p class="image_information"> <a href="https://global.museum-digital.org/object/1784566">Object information</a> <br />Image: Drilandmuseum - CC BY-NC-SA</p> </div> </li> <li> <div><a href="https://global.museum-digital.org/objects?tag_id=21579">Browse more objects</a></div> </li> </ul> </section> </div> <div class="lists"> <section id="equivalents"> <h3>References</h3> <ul> <li> <a href="https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb119419023">bnf<span>119419023</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="https://d-nb.info/gnd/4074617-3">gnd<span>4074617-3</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85141054">lcsh<span>sh85141054</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="https://id.ndl.go.jp/auth/ndlna/00572651">ndl<span>00572651</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q47574">wikidata<span>Q47574</span></a> </li> </ul> </section> </div> <p class="lastUpdTime">[Status: Checked; 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