FUNDAMENTAL QUANTITY

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Meaning:

One of the four quantities that are the basis of systems of measurement

Synonyms:

fundamental measure; fundamental quantity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("fundamental quantity" is a kind of...):

amount; measure; quantity (how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fundamental quantity"):

temperature (the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity))

mass (the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field)

length (the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place)