UNIT
Definition:
- [noun] any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange; "the dollar is the United States unit of currency"; "a unit of wheat is a bushel"; "change per unit volume"
Synonyms: of measurement
- [noun] an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole; "the reduced the number of units and installations"; "the word is a basic linguistic unit"
- [noun] an organization regarded as part of a larger social group; "the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit"
Synonyms: social
- [noun] a single undivided whole; "an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another"
- [noun] a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else; "units of nucleic acids"
Synonyms: building block
- [noun] an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; "how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit"
Synonyms: whole, whole thing
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Related Words:
- measuring unit, measuring block
- denier
- diopter
- Karat, carat
- absorption unit
- acceleration unit
- angular unit
- area unit, square measure
- volume unit, capacity unit, capacity measure, cubage unit, cubic measure, cubic content unit, displacement unit, cubature unit
- computer memory unit
- electromagnetic unit, emu
- explosive unit
- force unit
- metric unit, metric
- miles per gallon
- monetary unit
- megaflop, MFLOP, million floating point operations per second
- teraflop, trillion floating point operations per second
- MIPS, million instructions per second
- pain unit
- pressure unit
- printing unit
- sound unit
- telephone unit
- temperature unit
- weight unit, weight
- mass unit
- unit of viscosity
- work unit, heat unit, energy unit
- langley
- Brinell number
- point
- bit
- megabit
- electrostatic unit
- klavern
- administrative unit, administrative body
- company
- family, household, house, home, menage
- general delivery, poste restante
- instrumentality
- intensive care unit, ICU
- member
- military unit, military force, military group, force
- task force
- team, squad
- den
- gang, crew, work party
- combination
- crew
- troop, scout troop, scout group
- outfit
- fifth column, Trojan horse
- political unit
- side
- working group, working party
- one
- chain, chemical chain
- couple
- unit cell
- group, radical, chemical group
- molecule
- artifact, artefact
- item
- sum, total, totality, aggregate
