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<unit>

contains a symbol, a word or a phrase referring to a unit of measurement in any kind of formal or informal system.

Module coreCONANU

Attributes

Global and inherited attributes:
att.global @xml:id@n@xml:lang@xml:base@xml:space
att.global.analytic @ana
att.global.change @change
att.global.facs @facs
att.global.linking @corresp@synch@sameAs@copyOf@next@prev@exclude@select
att.global.rendition @rend@style@rendition
att.global.responsibility @cert@resp
att.global.source @source
att.cmc @generatedBy
att.measurement @unit@unitRef@quantity@commodity
att.typed @type@subtype

Classes and content

Member of
model.measureLike
May contain

analysis

certainty

core

dictionaries

figures

gaiji

header

iso-fs

linking

msdescription

namesdates

spoken

tagdocs

textcrit

textstructure

transcr

verse

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

analysis

cmc

core

corpus

dictionaries

drama

figures

header

iso-fs

linking

msdescription

namesdates

spoken

tagdocs

textcrit

textstructure

transcr

verse

Examples

Here is an example of a unit element holding a @unitRef attribute that points to a definition of the unit in the TEI header.

<measure>
  <num>3</num>
  <unit unitRef="#ell">ells</unit>
</measure>
<!-- In the TEI Header: -->
<encodingDesc>
  <unitDecl>
    <unitDef xml:id="ell">
      <label>ell</label>
      <placeName ref="#iceland"/>
      <desc>A unit of measure for cloth, roughly equivalent to 18 inches, or from an adult male’s elbow to the tip of the middle finger.</desc>
    </unitDef>
  </unitDecl>
</encodingDesc>

<measure>
  <num>2</num>
  <unit>kg</unit>
</measure>

<measure type="value">
  <num>3</num>
  <unit type="time" unit="min">minute</unit>
</measure>

<measure type="interval">
  <num atLeast="1.2">1.2</num> to <num atMost="5.6">5.6</num>
  <unit type="velocity" unit="km/h">km/h</unit>
</measure>

<p>Light travels at <num value="3E10">3×10^10</num>
  <unit type="rate" unit="cm/s">
    <unit type="space">cm</unit> per <unit type="time">second</unit>
  </unit>.</p>

Content model

<content>
     <macroRef key="macro.phraseSeq"/>
  </content>