Conversions directes

Conversions directes

UnitCloud est un laboratoire de mesure local pour le quotidien, la technique, l'informatique, l'énergie, la mobilité et le design.

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Common direct conversions

Longueur

Longueur

Inch, foot and mile use fixed factors. Errors usually come from early rounding or from mixing land miles and nautical miles.

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Unité de basem
Valeurs cibles7
SourcesBIPM SI Brochure · NIST Guide to SI Appendix B

Surface

Surface

Area scales quadratically. A length factor is not automatically an area factor.

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Unité de base
Valeurs cibles3
SourcesBIPM SI Brochure · NIST Guide to SI Appendix B

Volume

Volume

Volume is robust for liquids. For dry ingredients it does not replace weighing because density and packing vary.

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Unité de basel
Valeurs cibles4
SourcesBIPM SI Brochure · NIST Guide to SI Appendix B

Masse

Masse

Pound is not always the same local unit. UnitCloud uses international avoirdupois values.

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Unité de baseg
Valeurs cibles4
SourcesBIPM SI Brochure · NIST Guide to SI Appendix B

Température

Température

Temperature uses an offset. Fahrenheit and Kelvin are not pure factor units.

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Unité de base°C
Valeurs cibles4
SourcesBIPM SI Brochure · NIST Metric SI · NIST Guide to SI Appendix B

Données

Données

KB, MB and GB are decimal. KiB, MiB and GiB are binary. This distinction explains many apparent storage gaps.

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Unité de baseByte
Valeurs cibles6
SourcesNIST Metric SI Prefixes · NIST Binary Prefixes

Vitesse

Vitesse

Knots are nautical miles per hour. mph and knots are not interchangeable imperial speeds.

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Unité de basem/s
Valeurs cibles5
SourcesBIPM SI Brochure · NIST Guide to SI Appendix B

Énergie

Énergie

Food calories are kilocalories. Utility bills use kilowatt-hours. Both are energy units, but in different contexts.

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Unité de baseJ
Valeurs cibles5
SourcesBIPM SI Brochure · NIST Guide to SI Appendix B

Puissance

Puissance

PS and hp are not identical. Vehicle data often uses metric horsepower, while US/UK contexts often use mechanical horsepower.

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Unité de baseW
Valeurs cibles4
SourcesBIPM SI Brochure · NIST Guide to SI Appendix B

Pression

Pression

bar, psi and atm appear in different fields. Tyre, weather and lab values need context.

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Unité de basePa
Valeurs cibles4
SourcesBIPM SI Brochure · NIST Guide to SI Appendix B.8

Densité

Densité

Density depends on temperature, material state and measurement conditions. Unit conversion does not replace material data.

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Unité de basekg/m³
Valeurs cibles2
SourcesBIPM SI Brochure · NIST Guide to SI Appendix B

Temps

Temps

Calendar months and years vary. This family uses fixed seconds for technical durations, not legal deadlines.

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Unité de bases
Valeurs cibles3
SourcesBIPM SI Brochure · NIST Metric SI

Angle

Angle

Degrees and radians are often mixed in software, geometry and trigonometry. Formulas usually expect a specific angle unit.

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Unité de baserad
Valeurs cibles2
SourcesBIPM SI Brochure · NIST Guide to SI Appendix B

Force

Force

Force and mass are not the same. Kilogram is mass, newton is force.

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Unité de baseN
Valeurs cibles2
SourcesBIPM SI Brochure · NIST Guide to SI Appendix B.8

Couple

Couple

Torque is not power. Newton metre and hp/kW answer different questions.

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Unité de baseN·m
Valeurs cibles2
SourcesBIPM SI Brochure · NIST Guide to SI Appendix B

Consommation

Consommation

mpg and l/100 km move in opposite directions. Higher mpg means lower consumption; higher l/100 km means higher consumption.

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Unité de basel/100 km
Valeurs cibles3
SourcesNIST Guide to SI Appendix B

Typographie

Typographie

px depends on output context. UnitCloud uses the CSS reference of 96 px per inch.

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Unité de basept
Valeurs cibles3
SourcesNIST Guide to SI Appendix B · W3C CSS Values and Units

Résolution d'image

Résolution d'image

Pixel count and print density are different. Print sizes also need width, height and ppi.

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Unité de basepx
Valeurs cibles2
SourcesNIST Metric SI Prefixes

Fréquence

Fréquence

rpm and bpm are events per minute. Hz is events per second.

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Unité de baseHz
Valeurs cibles3
SourcesBIPM SI Brochure · NIST Metric SI