When using a graduated cylinder you should use liquid measurements. Specifically the units of liters (L) or milliliters (ml), which are fractions of liters.
Mass is measured using kilograms.
Mass is measured using kilograms.
Someone would determine the direction they are travelling by using a compass or a gps unit.
A group used to train a new military unit is a cadre. However, you would never train a unit using only officers. Non-commissioned officers are essential for training a new unit.
As far as using a practical unit, centimeters would indeed be effective in measuring a hand.
The loudness of sound is measured using the "decibel" or "bel" unit.
You would typically measure a globe using degrees. Longitude and latitude are measured in degrees to represent locations on Earth.
That matters on what you are using. If example a computer would often be in the gigabytes. An mp3 may be in the megabytes. So it matters what you are using.
Peoples feet come in various sizes (just look in a shoe shop) and thus if we each measured foot lengths using our own feet we would all come up with different absolute lengths and nothing we wanted to do co-operatively would ever fit together.
Assuming you are talking about a heatpump... Defective defrost timer board or thermostat.
You can convert between the units.
By using unit vectors we can cure the cervical cancer and we can dispersal the seeds