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This is a picture of the data of a given measurement by an oscilloscope. I would like to know what the difference between horizontal units and horizontal scale at an oscilloscope is. I would be so so grateful if someone could shed some light on it! :) enter image description here

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Horizontal Unit "s" means that the horizontal axis represents time and the units of the axis is seconds.

Horizontal Scale "1e-4" means that the one horizontal tick is $10^{-4}$ units.

Overall that means that the width of each box on the oscilloscope screen corresponds to a time interval of 100 microseconds

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  • $\begingroup$ Thank you so much Hilmar!! $\endgroup$
    – user277332
    Commented Oct 31, 2020 at 10:22
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Each horizontal division (spacing of grid lines) is likely "[Horizontal Scale] [Horizontal Units]", which is $10^{-4}\ \text{s}$ in this case.

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    – user277332
    Commented Oct 31, 2020 at 10:22