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| n. (quantity) | 1. unit, 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" |
| ~ definite quantity | a specific measure of amount. |
| ~ measuring block, measuring unit | a unit of measurement. |
| ~ denier | a unit of measurement for the fineness of silk or nylon or rayon.; "with an evening dress one wears 10 denier stockings" |
| ~ diopter, dioptre | a unit of measurement of the refractive power of a lens which is equal to the reciprocal of the focal length measured in meters; used by oculists. |
| ~ karat, kt, carat | the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold. |
| ~ absorption unit | a unit for measuring absorption. |
| ~ acceleration unit | a unit for measuring acceleration. |
| ~ angular unit | a unit of measurement for angles. |
| ~ area unit, square measure | a system of units used to measure areas. |
| ~ capacity measure, capacity unit, cubage unit, cubature unit, cubic content unit, cubic measure, displacement unit, volume unit | a unit of measurement of volume or capacity. |
| ~ computer memory unit | a unit for measuring computer memory. |
| ~ electromagnetic unit, emu | any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism. |
| ~ explosive unit | any unit for measuring the force of explosions. |
| ~ force unit | a unit of measurement of physical force. |
| ~ linear measure, linear unit | a unit of measurement of length. |
| ~ metric unit, metric | a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds).; "convert all the measurements to metric units"; "it is easier to work in metric" |
| ~ miles per gallon | the distance traveled in a vehicle powered by one gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel. |
| ~ monetary unit | a unit of money. |
| ~ megaflop, mflop, million floating point operations per second | (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system. |
| ~ teraflop, trillion floating point operations per second | (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system. |
| ~ million instructions per second, mips | (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system).; "4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second" |
| ~ pain unit | a unit measuring the intensity of pain. |
| ~ pressure unit | a unit measuring force per unit area. |
| ~ printing unit | a unit of measurement for printing. |
| ~ sound unit | any acoustic unit of measurement. |
| ~ telephone unit | a unit of measurement for telephone use. |
| ~ temperature unit | a unit of measurement for temperature. |
| ~ weight unit, weight | a unit used to measure weight.; "he placed two weights in the scale pan" |
| ~ mass unit | a unit of measurement for mass. |
| ~ unit of viscosity | a unit of measurement for viscosity. |
| ~ energy unit, heat unit, work unit | a unit of measurement for work. |
| ~ langley | unit of solar radiation. |
| ~ brinell number | measure of the hardness of a material. |
| ~ point | the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest.; "he scored 20 points in the first half"; "a touchdown counts 6 points" |
| ~ bit | a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states.; "there are 8 bits in a byte" |
| ~ electrostatic unit | any of various units of electricity based on forces of interaction between electric charges. |
| n. (linkdef) | 2. unit | 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" |
| ~ component part, part, portion, component, constituent | something determined in relation to something that includes it.; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"; "the animal constituent of plankton" |
| n. (group) | 3. social unit, 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" |
| ~ organization, organisation | a group of people who work together. |
| ~ klavern | a local unit of the Ku Klux Klan. |
| ~ administrative body, administrative unit | a unit with administrative responsibilities. |
| ~ company | a unit of firefighters including their equipment.; "a hook-and-ladder company" |
| ~ family, household, menage, home, house | a social unit living together.; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home" |
| ~ general delivery, poste restante | the part of a post office that handles mail for persons who call for it. |
| ~ instrumentality | a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose.; "are the judicial instrumentalities of local governments adequate?"; "he studied the French instrumentalities for law enforcement" |
| ~ icu, intensive care unit | a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care. |
| ~ member | an organization that is a member of another organization (especially a state that belongs to a group of nations).; "the library was a member of the interlibrary loan association"; "Canada is a member of the United Nations" |
| ~ military force, military group, military unit, force | a unit that is part of some military service.; "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men" |
| ~ task force | a semipermanent unit created to carry out a continuing task. |
| ~ team, squad | a cooperative unit (especially in sports). |
| ~ den | a unit of 8 to 10 cub scouts. |
| ~ work party, crew, gang | an organized group of workmen. |
| ~ combination | a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose.; "they were a winning combination" |
| ~ crew | the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.). |
| ~ scout group, scout troop, troop | a unit of Girl or Boy Scouts. |
| ~ outfit | any cohesive unit such as a military company. |
| ~ fifth column, trojan horse | a subversive group that supports the enemy and engages in espionage or sabotage; an enemy in your midst. |
| ~ political entity, political unit | a unit with political responsibilities. |
| ~ side | one of two or more contesting groups.; "the Confederate side was prepared to attack" |
| ~ working group, working party | a group of people working together temporarily until some goal is achieved.; "the working group was supposed to report back in two weeks" |
| n. (cognition) | 4. unit | a single undivided whole.; "an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another" |
| ~ whole | all of something including all its component elements or parts.; "Europe considered as a whole"; "the whole of American literature" |
| ~ one | a single person or thing.; "he is the best one"; "this is the one I ordered" |
| n. (object) | 5. building block, unit | a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else.; "units of nucleic acids" |
| ~ thing | a separate and self-contained entity. |
| ~ chemical chain, chain | (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule). |
| ~ couple | (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines. |
| ~ part, piece | a portion of a natural object.; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite" |
| ~ unit cell | the smallest group of atoms or molecules whose repetition at regular intervals in three dimensions produces the lattices of a crystal. |
| ~ chemical group, radical, group | (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule. |
| ~ molecule | (physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound. |
| n. (tops) | 6. unit, 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" |
| ~ object, physical object | a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow.; "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects" |
| ~ congener | a whole (a thing or person) of the same kind or category as another.; "lard was also used, though its congener, butter, was more frequently employed"; "the American shopkeeper differs from his European congener" |
| ~ animate thing, living thing | a living (or once living) entity. |
| ~ natural object | an object occurring naturally; not made by man. |
| ~ artefact, artifact | a man-made object taken as a whole. |
| ~ assembly | a unit consisting of components that have been fitted together. |
| ~ item | a whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection.; "they reduced the price on many items" |
| ~ part, portion | something less than the whole of a human artifact.; "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together" |
| ~ segment, section | one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object.; "a section of a fishing rod"; "metal sections were used below ground"; "finished the final segment of the road" |
| ~ aggregate, total, totality, sum | the whole amount. |
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