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Unit   /jˈunət/  /jˈunɪt/   Listen
Unit

noun
1.
Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.  Synonym: unit of measurement.  "A unit of wheat is a bushel" , "Change per unit volume"
2.
An individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole.  "The word is a basic linguistic unit"
3.
An organization regarded as part of a larger social group.  Synonym: social unit.  "After the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit"
4.
A single undivided whole.
5.
A single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else.  Synonym: building block.
6.
An assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity.  Synonym: whole.  "The team is a unit"



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"Unit" Quotes from Famous Books



... egotist is the man who regards the world as a setting for himself, as opposed to the man who realizes that he is a small unit in a gigantic system. The characteristic of the egotist is to consider himself of too great importance, while the danger of the non-egotist is not sufficiently to realize his significance. Egotism is the natural ...
— From a College Window • Arthur Christopher Benson
... is true of the whole is true of its parts," said the Marchesa. "I daresay it is, but I never stopped to inquire. I will amplify on my own account, and lay down that what is true of the parts must be true of the whole. I'm sure that sounds quite right. Now I, as a unit of society, am independent of cooks because I can cook myself, and if all the other units were independent, society itself ...
— The Cook's Decameron: A Study in Taste: - Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes • Mrs. W. G. Waters
... lies before us is plain: we want the welfare of the people as a whole. But we fail to grasp the complex social elements together, and our very remedies tend to sunder them. We know that the public good will not be obtained by separating man from man, securing each unit in a charmed circle of personal rights, and protecting it from others by isolation. We must find a place for the individual within the social organism, and we know now that this organism has not, as our fathers seemed to think, the simple constitution of a wooden doll. Society is not put ...
— Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher • Henry Jones
... astronomy was unpractised, and even they were only required in the preparation of the calendar and the assignments of the royal exchequer. In England, for example, when the hide developed from the normal holding of a household into the unit of taxation, the calculation of the geldage in each shire required a sum in division; as we know from the fact that one of the Abacists proposes the sum: "If 200 marks are levied on the county of Essex, which contains according to Hugh of Bocland 2500 hides, how much does each hide pay?"[3*] ...
— The Earliest Arithmetics in English • Anonymous
... insane with hysterical emotion at sight of their work's fulfillment, were lost in the thunder of the ship. The blunt bow lifted where the sun made dazzling brilliance of her sweeping curves, and with a blast that thundered from her stern the first unit of the space forces of the Earth swept upward in an arc of speed that ended in invisibility. No enveloping air could hold her now; she was launched in the ocean of space ...
— Astounding Stories, February, 1931 • Various


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