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unit

Pronounced:

/ˈju:nət/Listen to audio

Function:

noun

Inflected forms:

plural units

Meaning:

[count] 1 : a single thing, person, or group that is a part of something larger The family is the basic unit of society. The search party broke up into smaller units. Their army unit guarded the border.
2 : a part of a hospital where a particular type of care is provided the intensive care unit a trauma unit
3 : a particular amount of length, time, money, etc., that is used as a standard for counting or measuring Feet and meters are units of length. units of measurement The dollar is the principal unit of American currency.
4 : a part of a school course or textbook with a particular subject Our class is finishing up the unit on World War I.
5 US education : an amount of work used for measuring a student's progress towards earning a degree in a school, college, etc. Each unit of credit represents 120 classroom hours.
6 business : an individual item of one of the products that a company makes and sells Last year the company sold 200,000 units of that particular model of car.
7 : a machine or part of a machine or system that has a particular use an air-conditioning unit a portable/handheld unit the computer's central processing unit
8 : one of a number of apartments in a building The building is divided into eight units.
9 : a set of similar pieces of furniture (such as shelves or cabinets) that are grouped or attached together a built-in storage/wall unit (chiefly Brit) a kitchen unit [=a set of kitchen cabinets and appliances]
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