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Measurement Unit

Type Registry

Measurement Unit

representation.scientific.measurement_unit

Unit of measurement (meter, kilogram, second, Joule, etc.). May be written as symbol (m, kg, s) or full name (meter, kilogram). Broad categorization.

Domain representation›scientific
Casts to VARCHAR
Scope broad_words

Try it

CLI 
$ finetype infer -i "meter"
→ representation.scientific.measurement_unit

DuckDB

Detect 
SELECT finetype('meter');
-- → 'representation.scientific.measurement_unit'
Cast expression 
LOWER(CAST({col} AS VARCHAR))
Safe cast pipeline 
-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(finetype_cast(my_column) AS VARCHAR) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE finetype(my_column) = 'representation.scientific.measurement_unit';

JSON Schema

finetype schema representation.scientific.measurement_unit 
{
  "$id": "https://noon.sh/schemas/representation.scientific.measurement_unit",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Unit of measurement (meter, kilogram, second, Joule, etc.). May be written as symbol (m, kg, s) or full name (meter, kilogram). Broad categorization.",
  "enum": [
    "meter",
    "kilogram",
    "second",
    "ampere",
    "kelvin",
    "mole",
    "candela",
    "hertz",
    "newton",
    "joule",
    "watt",
    "pascal",
    "degree_celsius",
    "liter",
    "gram",
    "m",
    "kg",
    "s",
    "A",
    "K",
    "mol",
    "cd",
    "Hz",
    "N",
    "J",
    "W",
    "Pa",
    "°C",
    "L",
    "g"
  ],
  "examples": [
    "meter",
    "kilogram",
    "second",
    "m",
    "kg",
    "Joule",
    "J"
  ],
  "title": "Measurement Unit",
  "type": "string"
}

Examples

meterkilogramsecondmkgJouleJ

Also known as

unit

Types in representation