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unit, n.
(units)
freq. cnt. 44
more info any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
<noun.quantity>   freq. cnt.: 14 freq. cnt.: 14

unit unit of measurement

sample sentences

"the dollar is the United States unit of currency"
"a unit of wheat is a bushel"
"change per unit volume"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
unitize unitize
semantic pointers
hypernym
definite quantity
hyponym
measuring unit, measuring block denier diopter, dioptre karat, carat, kt absorption unit acceleration unit angular unit area unit, square measure volume unit, capacity unit, capacity measure, cubage unit, cubic measure, cubic content unit, displacement unit, cubature unit computer memory unit electromagnetic unit, emu explosive unit force unit linear unit, linear measure metric unit, metric miles per gallon monetary unit megaflop, MFLOP, million floating point operations per second teraflop, trillion floating point operations per second MIPS, million instructions per second pain unit pressure unit printing unit sound unit telephone unit temperature unit weight unit, weight mass unit unit of viscosity work unit, heat unit, energy unit langley Brinell number point bit electrostatic unit
more info an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole
<noun.relation>   freq. cnt.: 13 freq. cnt.: 13

unit

sample sentences

"the reduced the number of units and installations"
"the word is a basic linguistic unit"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
unitize unitize
semantic pointers
hypernym
part, portion, component, component part, constituent
more info an organization regarded as part of a larger social group
<noun.group>   freq. cnt.: 9 freq. cnt.: 9

social unit unit

sample sentences

"the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"
"after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
unitize
semantic pointers
hypernym
organization, organisation
hyponym
klavern administrative unit, administrative body company family, household, house, home, menage general delivery, poste restante instrumentality intensive care unit, ICU member force, military force, military unit, military group task force team, squad den crew, gang, work party combination crew troop, scout troop, scout group outfit fifth column, Trojan horse political unit, political entity side working group, working party
more info a single undivided whole
<noun.cognition>   freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 6

unit

sample sentences

"an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
unify unitize
semantic pointers
hypernym
whole
hyponym
one
more info a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else
<noun.object>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

building block unit

sample sentences

"units of nucleic acids"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
unitize unitize unitize
semantic pointers
hypernym
thing
hyponym
chain, chemical chain couple unit cell radical, group, chemical group molecule
part meronym
part, piece
more info an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity
<noun.Tops>

unit whole

sample sentences

"how big is that part compared to the whole?"
"the team is a unit"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
whole
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
unify unify unitize unitize
semantic pointers
hypernym
object, physical object
hyponym
congener living thing, animate thing natural object artifact, artefact assembly item total, sum, aggregate, totality
part meronym
part, portion section, segment