unit

1. Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange (synset 113604927)
   "the dollar is the United States unit of currency"; "a unit of wheat is a bushel"; "change per unit volume"
   is a type of: definite quantity - a specific measure of amount
   subtypes:

   • measuring block, measuring unit - a unit of measurement
   • denier - a unit of measurement for the fineness of silk or nylon or rayon
   • diopter, dioptre - a unit of measurement of the refractive power of a lens which is equal to the reciprocal of the focal length measured in meters; used by oculists
   • carat, karat, kt - the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold
   • absorption unit - a unit for measuring absorption
   • acceleration unit - a unit for measuring acceleration
   • angular unit - a unit of measurement for angles
   • area unit, square measure - a system of units used to measure areas
   • capacity measure, capacity unit, cubage unit, cubature unit, cubic content unit, cubic measure, displacement unit, volume unit - a unit of measurement of volume or capacity
   • computer memory unit - a unit for measuring computer memory
   • electromagnetic unit, emu - any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism
   • explosive unit - any unit for measuring the force of explosions
   • force unit - a unit of measurement of physical force
   • linear measure, linear unit - a unit of measurement of length
   • metric, metric unit - a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds)
   • miles per gallon - the distance traveled in a vehicle powered by one gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel
   • monetary unit - a unit of money
   • megaflop, mflop, million floating point operations per second - (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system
   • teraflop, trillion floating point operations per second - (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system
   • million instructions per second, mips - (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system)
   • pain unit - a unit measuring the intensity of pain
   • pressure unit - a unit measuring force per unit area
   • printing unit - a unit of measurement for printing
   • sound unit - any acoustic unit of measurement
   • telephone unit - a unit of measurement for telephone use
   • temperature unit - a unit of measurement for temperature
   • weight, weight unit - a unit used to measure weight
   • mass unit - a unit of measurement for mass
   • unit of viscosity - a unit of measurement for viscosity
   • energy unit, heat unit, work unit - a unit of measurement for work
   • langley - unit of solar radiation
   • brinell number - measure of the hardness of a material
   • point - the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
   • bit - a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states
   • electrostatic unit - any of various units of electricity based on forces of interaction between electric charges
   same as: unit of measurement
2. An individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole (synset 113832535)
   "the reduced the number of units and installations"; "the word is a basic linguistic unit"
   is a type of: component, component part, constituent, part, portion - something determined in relation to something that includes it
3. An organization regarded as part of a larger social group (synset 108206589)
   "the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit"
   is a type of: organisation, organization - a group of people who work together
   subtypes:

   • klavern - a local unit of the Ku Klux Klan
   • administrative body, administrative unit - a unit with administrative responsibilities
   • company - a unit of firefighters including their equipment
   • family, home, house, household, menage - a social unit living together
   • general delivery, poste restante - the part of a post office that handles mail for persons who call for it
   • instrumentality - a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose
   • icu, intensive care unit - a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care
   • member - an organization that is a member of another organization (especially a state that belongs to a group of nations)
   • force, military force, military group, military unit - a unit that is part of some military service
   • task force - a semipermanent unit created to carry out a continuing task
   • squad, team - a cooperative unit (especially in sports)
   • den - a unit of 8 to 10 cub scouts
   • crew, gang, work party - an organized group of workmen
   • combination - a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose
   • crew - the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.)
   • scout group, scout troop, troop - a unit of Girl or Boy Scouts
   • outfit - any cohesive unit such as a military company
   • fifth column, trojan horse - a subversive group that supports the enemy and engages in espionage or sabotage; an enemy in your midst
   • political entity, political unit - a unit with political responsibilities
   • side - one of two or more contesting groups
   • working group, working party - a group of people working together temporarily until some goal is achieved
   same as: social unit
4. A single undivided whole (synset 105878479)
   "an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another"
   is a type of: whole - all of something including all its component elements or parts
   subtypes: one - a single person or thing
5. A single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else (synset 109488589)
   "units of nucleic acids"
   is a type of: thing - a separate and self-contained entity
   subtypes:

   • chain, chemical chain - (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
   • couple - (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines
   • unit cell - the smallest group of atoms or molecules whose repetition at regular intervals in three dimensions produces the lattices of a crystal
   • chemical group, group, radical - (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
   • molecule - (physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound
   has: part, piece - a portion of a natural object
   same as: building block
6. An assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity (synset 100003553)
   "how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit"
   is a type of: object, physical object - a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow
   subtypes:

   • congener - a whole (a thing or person) of the same kind or category as another
   • animate thing, living thing - a living (or once living) entity
   • natural object - an object occurring naturally; not made by man
   • artefact, artifact - a man-made object taken as a whole
   • assembly - a unit consisting of components that have been fitted together
   • item - a whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection
   • aggregate, sum, total, totality - the whole amount
   has:

   • part, portion - something less than the whole of a human artifact
   • section, segment - one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
   same as: whole

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