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API unit

noun

Etymology

From API (“American Petroleum Institute”).

Definitions

  1. A unit of radioactivity used for measuring natural gamma rays in the ground.

    • The radioactivity of a typical shale is 100 API units.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for API unit. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA