unit
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
unit/ˈjuːnɪt/
▶noun
- 1 an individual thing or person regarded as single and complete but also able to form a individual component of a larger whole.
■ a self-contained section of a building or group of buildings.
■ a subdivision of a larger military grouping.
■ a self-contained part of an educational course.
■ a single manufactured item.
- 2 a device or part with a specified function.
- 3 a standard quantity in terms of which other quantities may be expressed.
- 4 one as a number or quantity.
– derivatives
unitize (or unitise) verb.
unitize (or unitise) verb.
'unit' also found in these Oxford entries:
ace
- acre
- acre-foot
- adder
- addressable
- afghani
- agora
- all-in-one
- allograph
- alternant
- ALU
- ampere
- amu
- angstrom
- anna
- anticodon
- are
- as
- assembly
- astronomical unit
- at
- atmosphere
- atomic
- atomic mass unit
- AU
- avo
- baht
- baiza
- balboa
- ban
- bar
- barleycorn
- barn
- batch
- baud
- beat
- becquerel
- bel
- birr
- bit
- bit
- block
- board foot
- bolivar
- boliviano
- brake horsepower
- British thermal unit
- Btu
- bulk modulus
- butut
