DIMENSIONS: MEASURE / Proportion
Mariners' Measure - feet, Fathoms, Nautical Miles, League
Square Measure - inches, feet, yards, rods, acres, miles [squared]
Cubic Measure - cubic inches, cubic feet, cubic yards
Surveyors' Measure - inches, links, chains
Liquid Measure - gills, pints, quarts, gallons, barrels, hogshead
Apothecaries' Fluid Measure - minium, drams, ounces, pints, quarts, gallons
Dry Measure - pints, quarts, pecks, bushels
Wood Measure - cubic feet, cord feet, cords
Time Measure - seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, centuries
Angular and Circular Measure - seconds, minutes, degrees, right angles, straight angles, circles
Troy Weight - grains, pennyweights, ounces, pounds
Avoirdupois Weight - grains, drams, ounces, pounds, short hundred-weight, short ton
Apothecaries' Weight - grains, scruples, drams, ounces, pounds
[Urdang, Laurence, ed. Random House Dictionary of The English Language. New York: Random House, 1968]
Metric Units - milimeters, centimeters, decimeters, meters, decanmeters, hectometers, kilometers, milliliters, centiliters, deciliters, liters, decaliters, hectoliters, kiloliters, miligrams, centigrams, decigrams, grams, decagrams, hectograms, kilograms, quintals, tons
[Urdang, Laurence, ed. Random House Dictionary of The English Language. New York: Random House, 1968]
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