What is the difference between unit and quantity?

Answer 1

It is the rate.

Answer 2

A unit of measure is anything used to describe a quantity of some king like feet for length, pounds for weight. Quantity is just the number of units, like ten feet, the ten is the quantity and feet is the unit of measure.

Answer

Voltage, current, resistance, mass, weight, temperature, volume, etc., are examples of quantities. Volts, amperes, ohms, kilograms, newtons, kelvin, cubic metre, are examples of units of measurements.

Answer 3

• we need unit because we want to measure amount or quantity to something. to make these things globally acceptable we need to put unique measurement value this is called unit

• Dimensions are physical quantities like mass, length, time which uniquely characterises an object. if say we want to measure a distance then we need length. for matter mass, and for clock time. units are to measure these quantities

Answer 4

a unit is a basic value of the particular but the square unit is the double of the unit value......................such as : let us consider 2m as the unit of anything, say the length of a given wire.............so if we square the length or double the length then the square unit of (2m) will be 4m sq.

Answer 5

A unit is a specific measurement used to quantify something, while a quantity refers to the amount or numerical value being measured. Units provide a standard of measurement, while quantities represent the actual amount being measured.

Answer 6

A unit is the basis of a measurement and the quantity would be how many of those units there are.

Answer 7

It is the rate.