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unit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | social unit |
| Type of | organization, organisation |
| Has types | force, squad, gang, general delivery, trojan horse, home, house, household, icu, intensive care unit, klavern, troop, crew, instrumentality, administrative body, member, menage, den, administrative unit, working party, military force, military group, military unit, working group, work party, combination, company, outfit, team, task force, political entity, political unit, poste restante, family, fifth column, scout group, scout troop, side |
| Derivation | unitize |
the coach said the offensive unit did a good job.
after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit.
unit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
the dollar is the United States unit of currency.
a unit of wheat is a bushel.
change per unit volume.
unit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | whole |
| Type of | physical object, object |
| Has types | total, animate thing, artifact, assembly, congener, aggregate, totality, artefact, living thing, item, natural object, sum |
| Derivation | unify, unitize |
the team is a unit.
unit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | building block |
| Type of | thing |
| Has types | group, couple, unit cell, radical, chemical chain, chemical group, chain, molecule |
| Derivation | unitize |
units of nucleic acids.
unit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | constituent, portion, component part, component, part |
| Derivation | unitize |
the reduced the number of units and installations.
the word is a basic linguistic unit.
Examples of units
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The group will be relieving units from the USS Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group.
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Whatcom County has an estimated 14,612 apartment units, according to the report.
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There was slightly more supply in Ormond Beach with seven listed units for sale.
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In total, the district spent $225,088 for those new HVAC units at Bellevue West.
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The units separate crude into oil products and form the main part of a refinery.
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If they couldn't connect with their units, they walked at least part of the way.
From the democratandchronicle.com
Demonstration units on display at the conference let attendees watch 3-D movies.
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Fund management, international units and private banking accounted for the rest.
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Some are units of giant factory-quality auditing companies such as Geneva's SGS.
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- Unit of measurement: 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- A single undivided whole; "an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another"
- A single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else; "units of nucleic acids"
- Whole: 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"
- UNIT (United Nations Intelligence Taskforce or UNified Intelligence Taskforce) is a fictional military organisation from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. ...
- Unit++ is a unit testing framework module for C++. The author started it as an alternative to CppUnit, which he felt was insufficiently integrated into the C++ language.
- Unit is the second full-length album by Australian band Regurgitator, released in November, 1997. Its style is a mixture of 1980s style synthesised pop music and alternative rock, with some hip-hop influences. ...
