unit, unit of measurement - any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange; "the dollar is the United States unit of currency"; "a unit of wheat is a bushel"; "change per unit volume"

degree - a unit of temperature on a specified scale; "the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature"

millidegree - a unit of temperature equal to one-thousandth of a degree

K, kelvin - the basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

Rankine - a unit of temperature on the Rankine scale

degree day - a unit used in estimating fuel requirements for heating a building