Units

Examples

• But, she had scarcely thought more of separating them into units, than of separating the sea itself into its component drops. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• A more scientific statement, however, is that the cold vapor absorbs the heat units of the water, and taking them away with it, lowers the temperature of the water to the freezing point. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But it is desirable at times to measure a current in units. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• There were some Italians with one of our units. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Some of the early races learned to designate units from tens and tens from hundreds by working their fingers in various ways. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The energy of the sun can be measured in heat units. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It was of such rich character that, being cheaply mined by greatly improved and inexpensive methods, the market price of crude ore of like iron units fell from about $6. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Absence of fire risk accounts for the introduction of electric heating units of different kinds into the motion-picture film manufacturing industry, a rapidly growing province. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Instruments for measuring the strength of currents in units are called ammeters, and the common form makes use of a galvanometer. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Our history has traced a steady growth of the social and political units into which men have combined. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The result is that the heat units carried off by the water flowing around coil _d_ are the same heat units abstracted from the water in tank _a_, which water is thus reduced to congealation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Some American ambulance units were to be sent down and this hospital would look after them and any other Americans on service in Italy. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• In this division, all the assembled units meet the assembly conveyor at the point where they are needed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is quite obvious that such a system would be commercially impracticable where small units, similar to gas jets, were employed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This re quired the intervention of specialists, expert rope-fasteners, who laid off a triangle by means of a rope divided into three parts, of three, four, and five units. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It consists of two units, linked together to give flexibility to the wheel base. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Edison's clear insight into the future, as illustrated by his persistent advocacy of large direct-connected generating units, is abundantly vindicated by present-day practice. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In many plants this mixture is made by barrow or load units, and may be more or less accurate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• One of the latest fire-fighting units. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The first man’s ten fingers and thumbs represented units; the second man represented tens, and the third hundreds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The number of units of heat required to melt a unit mass of ice is called the _heat of fusion_ of water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Both of these cities employ in electrical units of 16 c. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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