{"id":445,"date":"2015-05-20T15:08:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T13:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/?page_id=445"},"modified":"2015-05-20T15:08:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T13:08:44","slug":"abbreviating-units-of-measurement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/abbreviations-and-symbols\/abbreviating-units-of-measurement\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbreviating units of measurement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Units of measurement are often abbreviated. The abridged forms are normally written without points and do not have plurals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\n4 ha<\/span> (hectares)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\n9 m<\/span> (metres)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\n60 km<\/span> (kilometres)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\n200 g<\/span> (grams)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\n5 kg<\/span> (kilograms)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Note that proper nouns that form part of units of measurement retain their initial capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\n10 degrees C<\/span>elsius<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Back to Abbreviations and Symbols<\/a><\/strong>
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Units of measurement are often abbreviated. The abridged forms are normally written without points and do not have plurals. 4 ha (hectares) 9 m (metres) 60 km (kilometres) 200 g (grams) 5 kg (kilograms) Note that proper nouns that form part of units of measurement retain their initial capital. 10 degrees Celsius Back to Abbreviations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"parent":429,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-445","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/445\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}