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This section includes 899 fullforms, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Measurement Unit knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
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                                    MPY meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
                            
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for MPY is Miles Per Year in Measurement Unit category   | 
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                                    LTK meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for LTK is Load-tonne-kilometre in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    mBq meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer» What is Millibecquerel mean?  The becquerel (English: ; symbol: Bq) is the SI derived unit of radioactivity. One becquerel is defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second. For applications relating to human health this is a small quantity, and SI multiples of the unit are commonly used. The becquerel is named after Henri Becquerel, who shared a Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre and Marie Skłodowska Curie in 1903 for their work in discovering radioactivity. reference
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                                    LPW meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for LPW is Lessons Per Week in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    LPH meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for LPH is Litres Per Hour in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    MGO meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for MGO is Mega Gauss Oersteds in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    MHO meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for MHO is 1 / Ohms in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    CQT meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for CQT is Hundred Quarts (c = Centrum = Hundred) in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    TYA meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for TYA is Thousand Years Ago in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    YPS meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for YPS is Years of Pensionable Service in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    TiB meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer» What is Tebibyte mean?  The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures. To disambiguate arbitrarily sized bytes from the common 8-bit definition, network protocol documents such as The Internet Protocol (RFC 791) refer to an 8-bit byte as an octet. Those bits in an octet are usually counted with numbering from 0 to 7 or 7 to 0 depending on the bit endianness. The first bit is number 0, making the eighth bit number 7. The size of the byte has historically been hardware-dependent and no definitive standards existed that mandated the size. Sizes from 1 to 48 bits have been used. The six-bit character code was an often-used implementation in early encoding systems, and computers using six-bit and nine-bit bytes were common in the 1960s. These systems often had memory words of 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 48, or 60 bits, corresponding to 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, or 10 six-bit bytes. In this era, bit groupings in the instruction stream were often referred to as syllables or slab, before the term byte became common. The modern de facto standard of eight bits, as documented in ISO/IEC 2382-1:1993, is a convenient power of two permitting the binary-encoded values 0 through 255 for one byte—2 to the power 8 is 256. The international standard IEC 80000-13 codified this common meaning. Many types of applications use information representable in eight or fewer bits and processor designers commonly optimize for this usage. The popularity of major commercial computing architectures has aided in the ubiquitous acceptance of the 8-bit byte. Modern architectures typically use 32- or 64-bit words, built of four or eight bytes, respectively. The unit symbol for the byte was designated as the upper-case letter B by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Internationally, the unit octet, symbol o, explicitly defines a sequence of eight bits, eliminating the potential ambiguity of the term "byte". reference
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                                    WWR meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for WWR is Window Wall Ratio in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    TOW meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for TOW is Tons of Weed in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    ACF meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for ACF is Actual Cubic Feet in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    MMTC meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for MMTC is Million Metric Tons of Carbon in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    FLA meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for FLA is Full Load Amperage in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    DSE meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer» What is Dry Sheep Equivalent mean?  Dry Sheep Equivalent (DSE) is a standard unit frequently used in Australia to compare the feed requirements of different classes of stock or to assess the carrying capacity and potential productivity of a given farm or area of grazing land. The unit represents the amount of feed required by a two-year-old, 45 kg (some sources state 50 kg) Merino sheep (wether or non-lactating, non-pregnant ewe) to maintain its weight. One DSE is equivalent to 7.60 megajoule (MJ) per day. The carrying capacity of a farm is commonly determined in Australia by expressing the number of stock carried during a period of feed shortage in terms of their DSEs. Benchmarking standards used by Grazing for Profit programmes quote that one labour unit (40 hours per week) is required for 6,000 DSE (other benchmarking standards set the figure at 7,000 DSE). reference
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                                    BWG meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer» What is Birmingham Wire Gauge mean?  The Birmingham gauge is a wire gauge system, and is also used to specify thickness or diameter of hypodermic needles and tube products. reference
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                                    AVO meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for AVO is Amperes Volts and Ohms in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    MPW meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for MPW is Million Per Week in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    MPW meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for MPW is Miles Per Watt in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    LEM meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for LEM is Light Extinction Measure in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    OAR meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer» What is Of A Revolution mean?  O.A.R. (short for of a revolution) is an American rock band, founded in 1996 in Rockville, Maryland. The band consists of lead vocalist/guitarist Marc Roberge, drummer Chris Culos, guitarist Richard On, bassist Benj Gershman, saxophonist/guitarist Jerry DePizzo, and touring members, trumpet player Jon Lampley and keyboardist Mikel Paris. Together, the band has released eight studio albums, including their latest release, The Mighty, in March 2019. The band is well known for their live shows and extensive summer touring, and have released six live records with the latest release, Live From Merriweather, in November 2019. Four of the band members grew up in Rockville, Maryland and attended Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School. After graduating, they went on to study at Ohio State University. There they met the fifth member, saxophonist/guitarist Jerry DePizzo from Youngstown, Ohio. reference
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                                    SYU meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
                            
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for SYU is Sustained Yield Unit in Measurement Unit category   | 
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                                    TIU meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for TIU is Turns In Use in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    SOD meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for SOD is Seconds of Day in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    PHT meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for PHT is Peak Hour Traffic in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    WLH meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for WLH is World Lighthouse in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    LPS meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for LPS is Lines Per Second in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    PCU meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for PCU is Psi Chrono Unit in Measurement Unit category  
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for PCU is Passenger Car Units in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    NYM meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer» What is New York Minute mean?  A New York minute is a very short period of time. New York Minute may also refer to: New York Minute (film), a 2004 American family comedy"New York Minute" (Law & Order), a 2005 episode of the TV series"New York Minute" (song), by Don Henley, 1989, also covered several timesIn a New York Minute, a 1999 album by Ian Shaw"In a New York Minute" (song), by Ronnie McDowell, 1985 reference
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                                    SVH meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for SVH is Sievert (radiation Dose Unit of Measure) Per Hour in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    SQV meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for SQV is Vertical Square in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    TUa meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for TUa is Acute Toxicity Unit in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    KWO meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for KWO is Kilowatt Output in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    KWH meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for KWH is Kilo Watt Hours in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    KSI meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for KSI is Kilopounds Per Square Inch in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    MIU meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for MIU is Million International Units in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    PPQ meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for PPQ is Parts Per Quadrillion in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    PPQ meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer» What is Pulses Per Quarter mean?  In a music sequencer and MIDI clock, pulses per quarter note (PPQN), also known as pulses per quarter (PPQ), and ticks per quarter note (TPQN), is the smallest unit of time used for sequencing note and automation events. If the resolution is too low (too few PPQN), the performance recorded into the sequencer may sound artificial (being quantised by the pulse rate), losing all the subtle variations in timing that give the music a "human" feeling. Purposefully quantised music can have resolutions as low as 24 (the standard for Sync24 and MIDI, which allows triplets, and swinging by counting alternate numbers of clock ticks) or even 4 PPQN (which has only one clock pulse per 16th note). At the other end of the spectrum, modern computer-based MIDI sequencers designed to capture more nuance may use 960 PPQN and beyond. This resolution is a measure of time relative to tempo since the tempo defines the length of a quarter note and so the duration of each pulse. The resulting PPQN per MIDI-Clock is thus related to the TimeBase in Microseconds defined as 60.000.000 x MicroTempo = Beats per minute. reference
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                                    PPQ meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for PPQ is Parts Per Quarter in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    SHU meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for SHU is Scoville Heat Units in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    RHA meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for RHA is Rolling Herd Average in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    RLT meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for RLT is Really Long Time in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    kBq meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
                            
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                                   Answer» What is Kilobecquerel mean?  The becquerel (English: ; symbol: Bq) is the SI derived unit of radioactivity. One becquerel is defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second. For applications relating to human health this is a small quantity, and SI multiples of the unit are commonly used. The becquerel is named after Henri Becquerel, who shared a Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre and Marie Skłodowska Curie in 1903 for their work in discovering radioactivity. reference | 
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                                    KAF meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for KAF is Thousand Acre Feet in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    JPD meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer»   INFO: Full form for JPD is Jobs Per Day in Measurement Unit category  
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                                    KiB meaning in Measurement Unit ? | 
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                                   Answer» What is Kibibyte mean?  The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures. To disambiguate arbitrarily sized bytes from the common 8-bit definition, network protocol documents such as The Internet Protocol (RFC 791) refer to an 8-bit byte as an octet. Those bits in an octet are usually counted with numbering from 0 to 7 or 7 to 0 depending on the bit endianness. The first bit is number 0, making the eighth bit number 7. The size of the byte has historically been hardware-dependent and no definitive standards existed that mandated the size. Sizes from 1 to 48 bits have been used. The six-bit character code was an often-used implementation in early encoding systems, and computers using six-bit and nine-bit bytes were common in the 1960s. These systems often had memory words of 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 48, or 60 bits, corresponding to 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, or 10 six-bit bytes. In this era, bit groupings in the instruction stream were often referred to as syllables or slab, before the term byte became common. The modern de facto standard of eight bits, as documented in ISO/IEC 2382-1:1993, is a convenient power of two permitting the binary-encoded values 0 through 255 for one byte—2 to the power 8 is 256. The international standard IEC 80000-13 codified this common meaning. Many types of applications use information representable in eight or fewer bits and processor designers commonly optimize for this usage. The popularity of major commercial computing architectures has aided in the ubiquitous acceptance of the 8-bit byte. Modern architectures typically use 32- or 64-bit words, built of four or eight bytes, respectively. The unit symbol for the byte was designated as the upper-case letter B by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Internationally, the unit octet, symbol o, explicitly defines a sequence of eight bits, eliminating the potential ambiguity of the term "byte". reference
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