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coherent units

 
Sci-Tech Dictionary: coherent units
(kō′hir·ənt ′yü·nəts)

(physics) A system of units, such as the International System, in which the units of derived quantities are formed as products or quotients of units of the base quantities according to the algebraic relations linking these quantities.


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