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Sounds | yuw'naht; yuw'niht |
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Rhymes | abbot, abut, accredit, and 364 more rhymes in aht at the HyperDic website... |
acquit, admit, affectionate, and 178 more rhymes in iht at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange. |
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Examples | "the dollar is the United States unit of currency"; "a unit of wheat is a bushel"; "change per unit volume" |
Synonyms | unit of measurement |
Narrower | measuring unit, measuring block; denier; diopter; Karat, carat; 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; 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; megabit; electrostatic unit |
Broader | definite quantity |
Verbs | unitize; unitize |
Meaning | An individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole. |
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Examples | "the reduced the number of units and installations"; "the word is a basic linguistic unit" |
Broader | part, portion, component part, component |
Verbs | unitize; unitize |
Meaning | An organization regarded as part of a larger social group. |
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Examples | "the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit" |
Synonyms | social unit |
Narrower | 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; crew; troop, scout troop, scout group; outfit; fifth column, Trojan horse; political unit; side; working group, working party |
Broader | organization, organisation |
Verbs | unitize |
Meaning | A single undivided whole. |
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Examples | "an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another" |
Narrower | one |
Broader | whole |
Verbs | unify; unitize |
Meaning | A single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else. |
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Examples | "units of nucleic acids" |
Synonyms | building block |
Parts | part, piece |
Narrower | chain, chemical chain; couple; unit cell; group, radical, chemical group; molecule |
Broader | thing |
Adjectives | unitary |
Verbs | unitize; unitize; unitize |
Meaning | An assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity. |
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Examples | "the team is a unit" |
Synonyms | whole, whole thing |
Parts | part, portion; section, segment |
Narrower | artifact, artefact; item; sum, total, totality, aggregate |
Broader | object, physical object |
Verbs | unify; unitize; unitize; unify |