Unit of measurement

ID unit_of_measure

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Unit in which a quantity in the same row is expressed, written as a name or a symbol, for example kilogram, kg, litre or thousand roubles. Data catalogs often keep it in a separate column next to the value. Coded forms are covered by patterns such as the UN/ECE Recommendation 20 common code and UCUM.

Categories: All measurable values (percentage, amount and e.t.c)
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
Quality: 55/100 · missing: regexp, negative example, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage
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Examples

Value	Description
kg	kilogram, as a symbol
litre	unit name
%	percent

Patterns

Specific representations of this datatype.

ID	Name	Categories	Countries	Description
ucum_code	UCUM unit code pattern draft	values	global	Case-sensitive code of a unit in the Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM), built from unit atoms, prefixes and operators, for...
unece_rec20_unit_code	UN/ECE Recommendation 20 unit code (UN/CEFACT common code) pattern draft	values	global	Two- or three-character code of a unit of measure from UN/ECE Recommendation 20, used in trade documents such as UN/EDIFACT and UBL...

Translations

Language	Name	Description
Russian	Единица измерения
French	Unité de mesure

Sources

wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_of_measurement
wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47574

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