The phrase "as a unit of measurement" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing specific standards or quantities used to quantify physical properties or dimensions.
Example: "In scientific research, the kilogram is often used as a unit of measurement for mass."
Alternatives: "as a measurement standard" or "as a metric unit".
10 21 Regarding terminology for measuring liquid medications, many participants were uncomfortable with mL as a unit of measurement, mostly due to a lack of familiarity with the term.
Here, we suspect, is the beginning of an almost inevitable development-the atomic bomb as a unit of measurement, like horsepower.
The SiriusXM host Mike Ferrin often refers to altuves as a unit of measurement, and a Web site, "How Many Altuves?", converts 1 foot to increments of 5 feet 5 inches.
The word śruti is used both to indicate a specific note and as a unit of measurement to describe the size of an interval encompassed by two given notes.
The prefix "nano" is gaining an increasing presence in public consciousness, from invocations of the nanometre (nm) as a unit of measurement for our burgeoning silicon technology's tininess (as in Intel's latest 32nm processors), to the hubristically named iPod nano, which is a bit smaller than the others.
Tumor growth is translated into photon flux as a unit of measurement directly proportional to the number of rLuc-expressing tumor cells.
In the 2009 television episode "Planet of the Dead", "Bernard" is used as the name for a unit of measurement, and it is explained that this is in reference to Quatermass whether as a fictional or a real person is not stated.
Every cycle of 19 years makes up a unit of measurement as well, known as a "vahid" or "unity," and 19 vahids make up a 361-year cycle (a "kullu shay" or "all things").
Smoot '62 recalled memories recently about the night his name became a unit of measurement as MIT prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the quirky hack.
At one time the term was also used as a unit of area measurement.
In the same way, the magnitude of some body is taken as a unit of the measurement of spatial magnitude.
