Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

king-armstrong unit

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English

Syllables: king-arm-strong u-nit
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An obsolete measure of alkaline phosphatase concentration in the blood.

Etymology

Named after Canadian biochemist Earl Judson King (1901–1962) and Canadian physician Arthur Riley Armstrong (1904–?).

Inflected Forms

King-Armstrong units (plural)

Questions

What does king-armstrong unit mean?: An obsolete measure of alkaline phosphatase concentration in the blood.
Where does king-armstrong unit come from?: Named after Canadian biochemist Earl Judson King (1901–1962) and Canadian physician Arthur Riley Armstrong (1904–?).

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