unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuː.nɪt/
ipa: /ˈ(j)ɪu̯.nɪt/
rhymes: -uːnɪt
Forms: form: units
Etymology: Formerly unite, a later form of unity; see unity.
Senses: examples: text: Number, we define, to be, a certayne Mathematicall Sũme, of Vnits. [Note the worde, Vnit, to expresse the Greke Monas, & not Vnitie: as we haue all, commonly, till now, vsed.]
ref: 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.
examples: text: The centimetre is a unit of length.
text: The pound sterling is a unit of currency.
topics: sciences
synonyms: unit of measure
unit of measurement
glosses: A standard measure of a quantity or magnitude.
glosses: The number one.
examples: text: This pill provides 500 units of Vitamin E.
glosses: Ellipsis of international unit.
examples: text: He was a member of a special police unit.
glosses: An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
examples: text: The fifth tank brigade moved in with 20 units. (i.e., 20 tanks)
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A member of a military organization.
examples: text: We shipped nearly twice as many units this month as last month.
topics: business
commerce
glosses: An item which may be sold singly.
examples: text: This air-conditioner is the most efficient unit we sell.
glosses: Any piece of equipment, such as an appliance, power tool, stereo system, computer, tractor, or machinery.
topics: business
commerce
retail
coordinate_terms: bay
display
FSDU
gondola
stand
glosses: A structure used to display goods for sale (usually containing shelves, pegs or hooks)
examples: text: The new apartment complex will have 50 units.
glosses: a measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household; an apartment where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storied buildings or a group of dwellings is in one or more single storey buildings, usually arranged around a driveway.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A quantity of approximately 517 milliliters (1.1 U.S. pints) of blood.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organization.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or detailed. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units.
examples: text: An element 𝑒 of 𝑆 such that 𝑒𝑥 = 𝑥 = 𝑥𝑒 for all 𝑥 ∈ 𝑆 is called a unit element. (When the law of composition is written additively, the unit element is denoted by 0, and is called a zero element.)
ref: 2005, Serge Lang, Algebra, 3rd edition, Springer, →ISBN, page 3:
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The identity element, neutral element.
examples: text: Let 𝐴 be an arbitrary integral domain. We say that an element 𝑎 ∈ 𝐴 is invertible or is a unit of 𝐴 if it has an inverse in 𝐴; in ℤ the units are ±1, […]
ref: 1990, A. I. Kostrikin, I. R. Shafarevich, editors, Algebra I, Springer, →ISBN, page 22:
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
hypernyms: regular element
glosses: An element having an inverse, an invertible element; an associate of the unity.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of the left adjoint functor to the composition of the right adjoint functor with the left adjoint functor.
examples: text: For example, the Moenkopi Formation was named for the small settlement of Moenkopi, Arizona where the formation was first defined as being a separate unit from the rocks above and beneath it.
ref: 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it.
glosses: A unit of alcohol.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
glosses: A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
glosses: A work unit.
examples: text: Luca's father, Americo Campanaro, said: "I feel like my heart has been ripped out."
Mr Campanaro added: "He was a big lad, a big unit, that's why he was a goalkeeper, with a big heart to match. A gentle giant."
ref: 2018 December 11, “Aylesbury goalkeeper, 14, dies after match injury”, in BBC News:
glosses: A physically large person.
glosses: A penis, especially a large one.
Synonyms: sense: identity element
word: identity element
sense: identity element
word: unity
sense: identity element
word: unit element
Hyponyms: sense: chip
word: arithmetic logic unit
topics: sciences
word: SI unit
Derived terms: absolute unit
accumulated thermal unit
allocation unit
Amagat unit
angstrom unit
API unit
application protocol data unit
arbitrary unit
arithmetic logic unit
ALU
astronaut maneuvering unit
astronaut propulsion unit
astronomical unit
atomic mass unit
auxiliary power unit
bargaining unit
base unit
battery electric multiple unit
biounit
blocking unit
Bodansky unit
bread unit
British thermal unit
Bubnoff unit
B-unit
B unit
burn unit
business unit
cab unit
car equivalent unit
Carnegie unit
cat unit
central processing unit
CPU
colony-forming unit
concrete masonry unit
construction unit
consumer unit
control unit
counit
cowl unit
customary unit
cyberunit
Debye unit
derived unit
detoxification unit
diesel multiple unit
Dirichlet's unit theorem
DI unit
Dobson unit
effects unit
electric multiple unit
electromagnetic unit
en
excavation unit
exclusion unit
execution unit
family unit
federative unit
field unit
first unit
floating-point unit
FPU
flux unit
formula unit
forty-foot equivalent unit
Friedman unit
fundamental unit
garbage disposal unit
graphics processing unit
GPU
Haugh unit
head unit
Heaviside unit function
high dependency unit
hood unit
housing unit
hypothetical taxonomic unit
imaginary unit
immunounit
inclusion unit
inertial navigation unit
inertial reference unit
in-law unit
intensive care unit
intensive-care unit
interunit
intonation unit
IRE unit
K-9 unit
kilounit
King-Armstrong unit
lexical unit
linguistic unit
livestock unit
local administrative unit
logit
macrounit
manned maneuvering unit
map unit
megaunit
memory unit
message unit
microunit
milliunit
monetary unit
moon unit
morphic unit
mother and baby unit
motor unit
mountain unit
multiple unit
multiunit
natural unit
neural processing unit
nonstandard unit
nonunit
non-unit
operational taxonomic unit
parental unit
pecuniary unit
penalty unit
pilosebaceous unit
Planck unit
plea integrity unit
political unit
power unit
probit
processing unit
propwash deflection unit
prosodic unit
quantum processing unit
quantum unit of spin
rack unit
rankit
rectified linear unit
repeating unit
repeat unit
repunit
restricted stock unit
rhythmic unit
Scoville heat unit
Scoville unit
second unit
security housing unit
shower unit
Siegbahn unit
social unit
special handling unit
special victims unit
stock-keeping unit
storage unit
strontium unit
subunit
sunshine unit
superunit
Svedberg unit
system unit
time unit
tone-bearing unit
tractor unit
T-unit
turn construction unit
twenty-foot equivalent unit
unified atomic mass unit
unitage
unit aircraft
unital
unitality
unitary
unit cell
unit circle
unit combat readiness
unit commitment status
unit cost
unit designation list
unit disk
unit fine
unit fraction
unit function
unit gyrovector
unitholder
unitholding
unit hyperbola
unit interval
unitise
unitize
unitism
unitization
unit jar
unitless
unitlike
unit load
unit matrix
unit of account
unit of language
unit of measure
unit of measurement
unit of time
unit operation
unit price
unit pricing
unit sphere
unit test
unit testing
unit trust
unit vector
urotoxic unit
USP unit
visual display unit
wall unit
waste disposal unit
x unit