Measures
Units
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One obfuscated unit of measure that occasionally appears is "becquerels per dioptre", which uses obscure units (becquerel measures atomic decay while dioptre measures lens-focusing length) but cancels out to metres per second.
Source: Expospeak Gag -
The Professor has a "Coolometer" which measures the popularity of the subject in units of megafonzies.
Source: 20% More Awesome - Asari play this trope up, responding with diplomatic measures to threats, but when that fails, they subvert it and send in the Asari Commando units.
Source: Perfect Pacifist People
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Units and Measures. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/measures/units
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Units or Measures. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/measures/units.
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