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Synonyms for unit

Grammar : Noun
Spell : yoo-nit
Phonetic Transcription : ˈyu nɪt

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Définition of unit

Origin :
  • 1560s, "single number regarded as an undivided whole," alteration of unity on the basis of digit. Popularized in John Dee's English translation of Euclid, to express Greek monas (Dee says unity formerly was used in this sense). Meaning "single thing regarded as a member of a group" is attested from 1640s. Extended sense of "a quantity adopted as a standard of measure" is from 1738. Sense of "group of wards in a hospital" is attested from 1893.
  • noun whole
  • noun part
Example sentences :
  • Neither evolution nor involution will ever effect the value of a unit.
  • Extract from : « Life: Its True Genesis » by R. W. Wright
  • At all events, it is as impossible to demonstrate the non-existence of the one unit as the other.
  • Extract from : « Life: Its True Genesis » by R. W. Wright
  • Values are reckoned in “skins”—­that is, a “skin” is the unit of value.
  • Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace
  • I saw myself now as part of the whole, a unit in the sum of a life which interested me.
  • Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill
  • And, for the size-change, a normal diameter, Unit 1—and then up into thousands.
  • Extract from : « The World Beyond » by Raymond King Cummings
  • The party who are opposed to them insist that every unit in ten thousand must be the same as every other unit.
  • Extract from : « Philebus » by Plato
  • She was a unit and whole, so that whatsoever she did, became her.
  • Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The unit of our rural civilization, therefore, became the farm family.
  • Extract from : « The Farmer and His Community » by Dwight Sanderson
  • The unit of measure of the rate of flow of electric current.
  • Extract from : « The Automobile Storage Battery » by O. A. Witte
  • They were a unit in declaring that the Duke beat any man handling a horse they ever saw.
  • Extract from : « The Duke Of Chimney Butte » by G. W. Ogden

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