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Maß

Definitions of Maß
  1. noun
    any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
    synonyms: Einheit, Maßeinheit
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    types:
    Winkelmaß
    a unit of measurement for angles
    Flächenmaß
    a system of units used to measure areas
    Hohlmaß, Kubikmaß, Raumeinheit, Raummaß
    a unit of measurement of volume or capacity
    Längeneinheit, Längenmaß, definite Längeneinheit
    a unit of measurement of length
    Wärmeeinheit
    a unit of measurement for temperature
    Arbeitseinheit, Brennwert, Energieeinheit
    a unit of measurement for work
    Punkt
    the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
    Bit, binäre Ziffer
    a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states
    Grad
    one-hundredth of a right angle
    Quadratzoll
    a unit of area equal to one inch by one inch square
    Quadratmeter
    a centare is 1/100th of an are
    Quadratmeile
    an area of 640 acres
    Ar, Quadrathektometer
    a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters
    Hektar
    (abbreviated `ha') a unit of surface area equal to 100 ares (or 10,000 square meters)
    Morgen
    a South African unit of measure equal to about 2 acres
    Byte
    a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information
    K, Kilobyte
    a unit of information equal to 1024 bytes
    MB, Megabyte
    a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes
    GB, Gigabyte
    a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes
    TB, Terabyte
    a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes
    Stromstärkeeinheit
    a measure of the amount of electric charge flowing past a circuit point at a specific time
    Spannungseinheit
    a measure of the potential energy of a unit charge at a given point in a circuit relative to a reference point (ground)
    Leistungseinheit
    a measure of electric power
    Widerstandseinheit
    the reciprocal of conductance
    Zoll
    a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot
    Fuß
    a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
    Meile
    a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
    Elle
    an ancient unit of length based on the length of the forearm
    Fingerbreite
    the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure
    Handbreite
    any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand
    Kopf
    the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
    Spanne
    a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
    Pt, Punkt
    a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
    Grad, Grad Kelvin
    the basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
    Gewichtseinheit
    a decimal unit of weight based on the gram
    Joule, Kilojoule
    a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second
  2. noun
    a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)
    synonyms: Kubikdezimeter, Liter
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