Unit

Noun

 * 1)  A standard measure of a quantity.
 * The centimetre is a unit of length.
 * 1) An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
 * He was a member of a special police unit.
 * 1)  A self-contained military organization; usually a battalion, regiment, or naval ship.
 * 2)  A member of a military organization.
 * The fifth tank brigade moved in with 20 units. (i.e., 20 tanks)
 * 1) 🇺🇸 Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organization.
 * 2) 🇺🇸 An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
 * 3) 🇺🇸 A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or used. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.
 * 4) 🇺🇸 With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units.
 * 5)  An element of a ring having a multiplicative inverse. (Formerly just the identity element 1R of a ring.)
 * 6) (commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
 * We shipped nearly twice as many units this month as last month.
 * 1) (UK) (electricity) One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).

Synonyms

 * (identity element): identity element, unit element

Adjective
unit


 * 1) For each unit.
 * We have to keep our unit costs down if we want to make a profit.
 * 1)  Having a size or magnitude of one.
 * All solutions lie within the unit disc centered at the origin.

Adjectives for Unit
regulatory; myriad (pi); topical; versatile; efficient; functioning; fire-fighting; unmanageable; single; sounding; inseparable; research; harmonious; primary; mechanical; similar; parallactic; potent; political; arbitrary; perfected.

Verbs for Unit
affiliate with—; amass—; complete—; demolish—; design—; dissolve—; integrate—; isolate—; mould—; partition—; perform as —; rend—; replenish—; shatter—; strengthen—; sunder—; —expands; —swells.

Thesaurus
I, KP, abampere, abcoulomb, abfarad, abhenry, abohm, abvolt, ace, ampere, ampere-foot, ampere-hour, ampere-minute, an existence, army, army group, article, atom, atomic mass, atomic number, atomic weight, battalion, battery, battle group, being, body, brigade, cadre, carat, centigram, cohort, column, combat command, combat team, company, component, constituent, corps, coulomb, creature, critter, decagram, decigram, detachment, detail, division, dram, dram avoirdupois, dyne, element, entelechy, entity, farad, field army, field train, fighting force, file, firepower, flying column, force, forces, garrison, grain, gram, half-life, hands, henry, hundredweight, individual, integer, item, kilo, kilogram, kilovolt-ampere, kilowatt, kilowatt-hour, kitchen police, legion, life, maniple, mass, megacoulomb, megaton, megavolt, megawatt, megohm, men, mho, microhenry, micromho, micromicrofarad, microvolt, microwatt, milliampere, milligram, millihenry, millivolt, module, mole, monad, no other, none else, nothing else, nought beside, object, ohm, ohm-mile, one, one and only, organism, organization, ounce, ounce avoirdupois, ounce troy, outfit, part, pennyweight, person, persona, personality, personnel, phalanx, picofarad, piece, platoon, point, portion, posse, pound, pound avoirdupois, pound troy, poundal, quantum, rank, regiment, roentgen, scruple, section, segment, single, singleton, slug, something, soul, squad, squadron, statampere, statcoulomb, statfarad, statvolt, stone, tactical unit, task force, the big battalions, thing, ton, train, troop, troops, units, units of weight, valence, volt, volt-coulomb, volt-second, watt, watt-hour, weight, wing, work force

Etymology
Formerly unite:, a later form of unity:; see unity:.

Noun

 * Arabic: (wáħda)
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 单位 (dānwèi)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: enhed
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, unuo
 * Estonian: ühik
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 単位 (たんい, tan’i)
 * Korean: 단위 [單位] (danwi)
 * Lao:
 * Norwegian Bokmål:
 * Norwegian Nynorsk:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: единица (jedinítsa)
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 部件 (bùjiàn)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: enhed
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: ,


 * Japanese: 一式 (いっしき, isshiki)
 * Norwegian Bokmål:
 * Norwegian Nynorsk:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: единица (jedinítsa)
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: јединица
 * Roman: jedinica
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:


 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: üksus
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:


 * Japanese: 部隊 (ぶたい, butai), 部門 (ぶもん, bumon)
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: единица (jedinítsa)
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: јединица
 * Roman: jedinica


 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Croatian:
 * Finnish:


 * Greek:
 * Norwegian Bokmål:
 * Norwegian Nynorsk:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: unitate


 * Finnish:
 * Greek:, τεμάχιο


 * Norwegian Bokmål:
 * Norwegian Nynorsk:


 * : satuan


 * : jednotka

Adjective

 * Finnish: yksikkö-


 * Finnish: yksikkö-

Derived terms

 * unit aircraft
 * unit cost
 * unit combat readiness
 * unit commitment status
 * unit designation list

Anagrams

 * uint

Verb

 * 1) third-person singular indicative present of unir
 * 2) third-person singular indicative past historic of unir

Anagrams

 * nuit

Participle
unit