Definition of unit - Rhyme Finder

Definitions

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"

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"

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"

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"

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Synonyms

building block social unit unit of measurement whole

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More General Terms

component component part constituent definite quantity object organisation organization part physical object portion thing whole

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More Specific Terms

absorption unit acceleration unit administrative body administrative unit aggregate angular unit animate thing area unit artefact artifact assembly bit Brinell number capacity measure capacity unit carat chain chemical chain chemical group combination company computer memory unit congener couple crew cubage unit cubature unit cubic content unit cubic measure den denier diopter dioptre displacement unit electromagnetic unit electrostatic unit emu energy unit explosive unit family fifth column force force unit gang general delivery group heat unit home house household ICU instrumentality intensive care unit item karat klavern kt langley linear measure linear unit living thing mass unit measuring block measuring unit megaflop member menage metric metric unit MFLOP miles per gallon military force military group military unit million floating point operations per second million instructions per second MIPS molecule monetary unit natural object one outfit pain unit point political entity political unit poste restante pressure unit printing unit radical scout group scout troop side sound unit squad square measure sum task force team telephone unit temperature unit teraflop total totality trillion floating point operations per second Trojan horse troop unit cell unit of viscosity volume unit weight weight unit work party work unit working group working party

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