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unit Listen to audio/ˈju:nət/ noun
plural units
[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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