{
  "id": "unit.measurement",
  "term": "unit",
  "sense": "measurement",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "(general)",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "one thing with size",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "single.quantity",
      "size.measurement"
    ],
    "interaction": "The single and the size together form a thing",
    "novel_properties": [
      "standard amount",
      "identifiable piece"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Prototype of the Kilogram, a platinum-iridium cylinder in Paris, defined mass for 130 years.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. customary system defines a foot as exactly 0.3048 meters since 1959.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The daily market price of Bitcoin fluctuates, but each unit represents one cryptocurrency token on the blockchain.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "meters.measurement",
    "speed.motion"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "unit",
    "units"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-unit.measurement"
}