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unit
Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
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noun
Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
“The dollar is the United States unit of currency”
noun
An individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole
“They reduced the number of units and installations”
noun
An organization regarded as part of a larger social group
“The coach said the offensive unit did a good job”
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”
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An assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity
“How big is that part compared to the whole?”
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The dollar is the United States unit of currency
A unit of wheat is a bushel
Change per unit volume
They reduced the number of units and installations
The word is a basic linguistic unit
The coach said the offensive unit did a good job
After the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit
An idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another
Units of nucleic acids
How big is that part compared to the whole?
The team is a unit
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