unit of quantity

What do the abbreviations in the Unit of Quantity column mean?

By law, loose goods sold with reference to units of quantity have to be weighed and sold using the metric system.

How about a unit of quantity defined so that one unit of carbon-12 has a mass of exactly 12 grams?

Using physical laws, units of quantities can be expressed as combinations of units of other quantities.

GNU Units is a cross-platform computer program for conversion of units of quantities.

LibSBML implements a thorough system for dimensional analysis and checking units of quantities in a model.

Where differing units of quantity exist at 10-digit HTS line-item levels for a given 8-digit number, "NA" will appear for quantity.

The SI unit of quantity of electricity is the coulomb, while the SI unit for electric potential is the volt.

A sagan is a unit of quantity equivalent to "billions and billions"--the quotation an unintentionally self-parodic trademark of the late astronomer Carl Sagan.

In the UK, tobacco, for example, is taxed as a specific duty per unit of quantity and an ad valorem element based on the recommended retail price of 21 per cent.

The term "farad" was coined by Josiah Latimer Clark in the year of 1861, in honor of Michael Faraday, but it was for a unit of quantity of charge.

Advise this to the recipient as one sum or, if more convenient, as a calculated amount per unit of quantity, expressed to the degree of accuracy desired by the recipient; however, we cannot accept rounding down.

The marginal revenue from an "incremental unit of quantity" has two parts: first, the revenue the firm gains from selling the additional units or P Q. The additional units are called the marginal units.

One of these concerns has been the definition of what a unit price is and how it can indicate not merely the kilogramme, the litre, the metre or whatever, but also that unit of quantity which is widely used in the Member States concerned.

The unit of quantity for excise duty purposes is 'litres at 15 C' as required by the EC Directive on the harmonisation of the structures of excise duties on mineral oils (Council Directive 92/81/EEC).

Protection of the consumer does not at present include the provision of clear price information, especially regarding any indication of the sale price per unit of quantity for products marketed in pre-packaged form, whose prices the consumer is unable to compare with the prices of similar products.