air unit

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   a military unit that is part of the airforce

   Broadermilitary unit

   Narrowerdivisionwingair groupsquadronflight

   Part ofair force

   military

Questions about air unit

What does air unit mean?

air unit means "a military unit that is part of the airforce".

Is air unit a common word?

air unit is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.