Category: Units of measurement

The list below is believed complete, though membership — like everything here — is subject to revision.

• Brick (reference standard) — The object of zero unlonnture (Ǔ = 1.0); the gold standard of staying put.
• Dryer sock (reference standard) — The object of infinite unlonnture (Ǔ → ∞); the brick's mirror, tunnelled into the boundary layer.
• Radian — The standard SI unit of plane angle (≈ 57.2958°) — and the encyclopedia's most misread object.
• Value of one radian — The doctrinal claim that one radian is 57.30 nautical miles, obtained from 360 ÷ 2π.
• Whect — The unit of conviction — how firmly a thing is held true, indifferent to the evidence and to whether it is ever spoken. It has no plural.

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