unit

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noun

1. any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange (Freq. 14)
- the dollar is the United States unit of currency
- a unit of wheat is a bushel
- change per unit volume
• Syn:
unit of measurement
• Derivationally related forms:
unitize
• Hypernyms:
definite quantity
• Hyponyms:
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
2. an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole (Freq. 13)
- the reduced the number of units and installations
- the word is a basic linguistic unit
• Derivationally related forms:
unitize
• Hypernyms:
part, portion, component part, component, constituent
3. an organization regarded as part of a larger social group (Freq. 9)
- the coach said the offensive unit did a good job
- after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit
• Syn:
social unit
• Derivationally related forms:
unitize
• Hypernyms:
organization, organisation
• Hyponyms:
klavern, administrative unit, administrative body, company, family,
household, house, home, menage, general delivery, poste restante,
instrumentality, intensive care unit, ICU, member, military unit, military force,
military group, force, task force, team, squad, den,
gang, crew, work party, combination, troop, scout troop,
scout group, outfit, fifth column, Trojan horse, political unit, political entity,
side, working group, working party
4. a single undivided whole (Freq. 6)
- an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another
• Derivationally related forms:
unify, unitize
• Hypernyms:
whole
• Hyponyms:
one
5. a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else (Freq. 2)
- units of nucleic acids
• Syn:
building block
• Derivationally related forms:
unitize
• Hypernyms:
thing
• Hyponyms:
chain, chemical chain, couple, unit cell, group,
radical, chemical group, molecule
• Part Meronyms:
part, piece
6. 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
• Syn:
whole
• Derivationally related forms:
unify, unitize, whole (for: whole)
• Hypernyms:
object, physical object
• Hyponyms:
congener, living thing, animate thing, natural object, artifact,
artifact, assembly, item, sum, total,
totality, aggregate
• Part Meronyms:
part, portion, section, segment

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  whole, building block, social unit, unit of measurement