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Unit Standard (JSR 363) Reference Implementation.

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/**
 *  Unit-API - Units of Measurement API for Java
 *  Copyright (c) 2005-2014, Jean-Marie Dautelle, Werner Keil, V2COM.
 *
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package tec.units.ri;

import javax.measure.Quantity;

import tec.units.ri.function.QuantitySupplier;

/**
 *
 * A Measurement contains a {@link Quantity} and a timestamp.
 * 
 * 
 * A {@code Measurement} object is used for maintaining the tuple of quantity and timestamp.
 * The value is represented as {@linkplain Quantity}
 * and the time as {@linkplain Instant}
 * 

 * 
 * @see {@link QuantitySupplier}
 * @author werner
 * @version 0.3
 * @param 
 */
public interface Measurement> extends QuantitySupplier,
		Comparable> {

	/**
	 * Returns the timestamp of this {@link Measurement}.
	 * 
	 * @return a timestamp.
	 */
	long getTimestamp();
}