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say it: YOO-nuht
unit is a noun meaning "any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange". It carries 6 recorded senses.
any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
“the dollar is the United States unit of currency”
“a unit of wheat is a bushel”
“change per unit volume”
an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole
“the reduced the number of units and installations”
“the word is a basic linguistic unit”
an organization regarded as part of a larger social group
“the coach said the offensive unit did a good job”
“after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for unit come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.