Appendix:Weights and measures

Metric units

SI units

• See SI units

CGS units

• Length: centimetre, centimeter
• Wave number: kayser
• Acceleration: gal, galileo
• Mass: gram
• Time: second
• Force: dyne
• Energy: erg
• Heat energy: calorie
• Pressure: barye
• Kinematic viscosity: stokes
• Dynamic viscosity: poise
• Luminance: stilb
• Illumination: phot
• Electrical charge: esu, franklin, statcoulomb
• Electrical current: abampere, ampere, biot
• Electric potential: abvolt, statvolt
• Permeability: darcy
• Electric dipole moment: debye
• Magnetic field strength: oersted
• Magnetic flux: line, maxwell, unit pole
• Magnetic flux density, magnetic induction: gauss
• Magnetic dipole moment: emu
• Magnetomotive force: gilbert
• Heat transmission: langley
• Radiation dose: rad, rem (obsolete) , rep (former name for rad)

Units of the MKS system

• kilogram
• metre, meter
• second

Units of the MKSA system (the Giorgi system)

• ampere
• kilogram
• metre, meter
• second

Other metric units

Units of length

• angstrom
• fermi
• mil

Units of area

• are
• Multiples and submultiples:
  • centiare
  • deciare
  • hectare
  • milliare
• barn
• hectare

Units of volume/capacity

• litre, liter
• Multiples and submultiples:
  • centilitre, centiliter
  • decalitre, decaliter
  • decilitre, deciliter
  • hectolitre, hectoliter
  • kilolitre, kiloliter
  • millilitre, milliliter
• mil

Units of mass

• crith
• metric carat
• quintal

Units of angular measure

• gon, grade

Units of energy/heat/work

• electronvolt
• Multiples:
  • gigaelectronvolt
  • kiloelectronvolt
  • megaelectronvolt
• watt-hour
• Multiples:
  • kilowatt-hour

Units of pressure

• atmosphere
• bar
• Multiples and submultiples:
  • kilobar
  • microbar
  • millibar
• millimetre of mercury, millimeter of mercury
• standard atmosphere
• torr

Units of luminance

• lumen
• candela
• candle power
• watt
• Measured over areas:
  • lambert
  • lux
  • phots
  • foot-candles
  • foot-lamberts
  • lumans/sq meter

Units of electrical charge

• ampere hour
• faraday

Units of power of a lens

• dioptre, diopter

Units of comparison of sound intensities, electrical currents or voltages

• bel
• Submultiple:
  • decibel
• neper

Units of radioactive activity

• curie

Units of dose of X-rays or gamma rays

• röntgen, roentgen

Non-metric units

Units of the slug-foot-second system

• foot
• second
• slug

Units of length

• barleycorn
• cable length
• chain
• cubit
• digit
• ell
• foot
• furlong
• hand
• inch
• ligne
• line
• link
• mil
• mile
• nail
• palm
• perch
• point
• pole
• rod
• shaftment
• span
• statute mile
• yard

Units of area

• acre
• hide
• rood
• section
• square foot
• square inch
• square mile
• square rod
• square yard
• virgate
• yardland, yard of land

Units of volume/capacity

• acre-foot
• barrel
• barrel-bulk
• boll
• bushel
• cubic foot
• cubic inch
• cubic yard
• cup
• dessertspoon, dessertspoonful
• firkin
• fluid drachm, fluid dram
• fluid ounce
• fluid scruple
• gallon
• gill
• heaped dessertspoon, heaped dessertspoonful
• heaped tablespoon, heaped tablespoonful
• heaped teaspoon, heaped teaspoonful
• hogshead
• kilderkin
• miner's inch
• minim
• peck
• pint
• pipe
• puncheon
• quart
• quarter
• quatern
• stick
• tablespoon, tablespoonful
• teaspoon, teaspoonful
• tierce

Units of volumetric flow

• cusec

Units of angular measure

• mil

Units of mass

• cental
• chaldron
• drachm, dram
• dram apothecaries
• grain
• hundredweight
• long ton
• long hundredweight
• ounce
• ounce apothecaries
• ounce troy
• pennyweight
• pound
• pound apothecaries
• pound avoirdupois
• pound troy
• quarter
• quatern
• scruple
• short hundredweight
• short ton
• slug
• stone
• ton
• tonne (metric ton)

Units of force

• kip
• poundal
• pound-force

Units of energy/heat/work

• British thermal unit
• calorie
• Calorie, kilocalorie
• foot-pound, foot-pound force
• lamp-hour
• therm

Units of intensity of ultraviolet light

• Finsen unit

Units of thermal resistance

• R-value
• tog

Units of power

• horsepower

Units of temperature

• degree Fahrenheit
• degree Rankine

Other units

Units of angular measure

• degree
• minute
• second

Units of mass

• atomic mass unit

Units of time

• century
• decade
• day
• fortnight
• hour
• millennium
• minute
• month
• week
• year

Units of angular velocity

• revolution per minute
• revolution per second (rps)

Units of perceived loudness

• phon
• sone

Units of radioactive disintegration

• rutherford

Astronomical units

• astronomical unit
• international candle
• light year
• parsec
• standard candle

Computer memory

• bit
• Multiples:
  • kilobit
  • megabit
  • gigabit
  • terabit
  • petabit
  • exabit
• byte
• Multiples:
  • gigabyte
  • kilobyte
  • megabyte
  • terabyte
  • petabyte
  • exabyte
• nibble, nybble
• word

Nautical units

• cable-length, cable's-length
• fathom
• league
• international nautical mile
• knot
• last
• nautical mile
• sea mile

Output from reactor fuel

• megawatt day per tonne

Specific units for various commodoties

Cloth

• cloth-yard

Flooring

• square

Flour

• boll

Gemstones

• carat

Gold

• carat, karat

Herrings

• cran

Hops

• hop-pocket

Paper

• printer's ream
• quire
• ream

Silk, rayon and nylon

• denier

TNT

• kiloton
• megaton

Wine

• Balthazar
• Jeroboam
• magnum
• methuselah
• Nebuchadnezzar
• rehoboam
• salmanazar, salmanaser

Wood

• board-foot
• hoppus foot, hoppus cubic foot
• stere
• Multiples and submultiples:
  • centistere [1]
  • decastere [2]
  • decistere [3]
  • hectostere [4]

Wool

• cord

Yarn

• lay, lea, ley
• tex

Units used in particular countries

• Note: Units in this section are English names for units used in various countries. Please do not add non-English words here, but consider setting up an appendix for them in the appropriate language (such as Appendix:sv:Weights and measures for Swedish).

Chinese units

• catty, kati, katti
• kin
• li
• liang
• picul
• tael

Egyptian units

• ardeb

French units

• arpent
• chopin
• livre
• muid
• toise

German units

• centner
• pfund

Greek units

• drachm, drachma
• mina
• stadium

Hebrew units

• bath
• caneh, kaneh
• cor
• epha, ephah
• gerah
• hin
• homer
• omer
• shekel

Indian units

• bigha
• candie, candy, kandy
• coss
• maund
• seer
• tola
• yojan

Japanese units

Length

• shaku
• mō
• rin
• bu
• sun
• jyō
• ken
• chō
• ri
• kujirajyaku

Mass

• kan
• mō
• rin
• bu
• monme
• kin

Area

• tsubo
• shaku
• gō

Volume

• shō
• shaku
• gō
• to
• koku

Persian units

• parasang

Roman units

• modius
• semuncia

Russian units

• arsheen, arshin, arshine
• centner
• dessiatine, dessyatine, desyatin
• pood
• sazhen
• verst

Scottish units

• chalder
• chopin
• lispound
• mutchkin

Turkish units

• arsheen, arshin, arshine
• oke

Units used in various countries

• anker
• arroba
• catty, kati, katti
• centner
• dirhem
• kantar
• maund
• morgen
• rotl
• shippound
• talent

Biblical units

• cubit
• gerah
• mina
• talent

External links

• Units of measurement