---
title: "KindOfMeasure"
description: "a registered kind of measure"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/kindofmeasure
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# KindOfMeasure

a registered kind of measure

[figure: KindOfMeasure is a row at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | row |
| scope | platform |
| key | its name |
| store | postgres |
| family | registers |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `name` | `text` | yes |  |
| `dimension` | `text` | yes | the unit and the value's type, from the closed list of SourceField types, so the measure's gold column is typed |
| `definition_version` | `count` | yes |  |
| `instrument` | `text` | yes |  |
| `read_with_nothing_connected` | `bool` | yes |  |
| `slices` | `[text]` | no | the registered dimensions a reading may be cut by: a rail, a band, an hour, a list position |
| `page_words` | `[text]` | no | the words a page shows beside a count of this measure, singular and plural, so a reader finds the count on any page |
| `family` | `text` | no | the family a measure belongs to: economics for a value driver, else absent |
| `stated_by` | `one of the buyer \| a benchmark \| the record \| a formula` | no | for a value driver: who supplies its number |
| `question` | `text` | no | for a value driver the buyer states: the question in the buyer's own words |
| `bounds` | [Interval](/concepts/interval) | no | for a value driver the buyer states: the floor and the ceiling a stated value may not cross |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns KindOfMeasure directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.