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Unit

noun

Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange. Synonym: unit of measurement. "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 word is a basic linguistic unit"

An organization regarded as part of a larger social group. Synonym: social unit. "After the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit"

A single undivided whole.

A single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else. Synonym: building block.

An assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity. Synonym: whole. "The team is a unit"

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"Unit" Quotes from Famous Books

... clogged slowness, or was it that he had ceased to be a body, that he was all brain and hair-trigger nerves making every thousandth part of a second seem a unit of time? It seemed to Andrew that the marshal's hand dragged through its work; to those who watched from the sides of the ravine, there was a flash of fire from his gun before they saw even the flash of the steel out of the holster. ...

— Way of the Lawless • Max Brand

... tetra-stater or piece of eight drachms, and in silver the tetra-drachma, or piece of four drachms, while Greece had hardly seen a piece of gold larger than the single stater. In Alexandrian accounts also the unit of money was the silver didrachm, and thus double that in use among the merchants ...

— History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To The Present Time, Volume 10 (of 12) • S. Rappoport

... however, one little backwater of rest and quiet into which we men of blood and iron drift at all too infrequent intervals—that is when we become what is known officially as "barn orderly." A barn orderly is the company unit who looks after the billets of the men out on parade. In due course my turn arrived, and the battalion marched away leaving me ...

— The Red Horizon • Patrick MacGill

... on both sides of our Lord may be considered in groups of three, and each group may be regarded as a unit, placed in relation and still held in connection with its neighbours. On Christ's immediate right are John, ...

— Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers • Esther Singleton

... Silence, Elionore, were the familiar spirits of an apartment beautiful with tapestry and palms; Swinburne and Rossetti were the English poets I read there; and in a golden bondage, I, a unit in the generation they have enslaved, clanked my fetters and trailed my golden chain. I had begun a set of stories in many various metres, to be called "Roses of Midnight." One of the characteristics of the ...

— Confessions of a Young Man • George Moore

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