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<p>A <b>base unit of measurement</b> (also referred to as a <b>base unit</b> or <b>fundamental unit</b>) is a <a href="page.php?w=unit_of_measurement">unit of measurement</a> adopted for a <a href="page.php?w=base_quantity">base quantity</a>. A base quantity is one of a conventionally chosen subset of <a href="page.php?w=physical_quantity">physical quantities</a>, where no quantity in the subset can be expressed in terms of the others. The <a href="page.php?w=SI_base_units">SI base units</a>, or Systéme International d'unités, consists of the</p><p>
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