Units and Measurement

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The nature of a physical quantity is described by its dimensions.

All the physical quantities represented by derived units can be expressed in terms of some combination of seven fundamental or base quantities.

length has the dimension [L], mass [M], time [T], electric current [A], thermodynamic temperature [K], luminous intensity [cd], and amount of substance [mol]