unit

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a single undivided whole

   an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another

2. 2
   noun

   an organization regarded as part of a larger social group

   the coach said the offensive unit did a good job

3. 3
   noun

   a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else

   units of nucleic acids

4. 4
   noun

   any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange

   the dollar is the United States unit of currency

5. 5
   noun

   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

6. 6
   noun

   Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.

   Number, we define, to be, a certayne Mathematicall Sũme, of Vnits. [Note the worde, Vnit, to expresse the Greke Monas, & not Vnitie: as we haue all, commonly, till now, vsed.]

7. 7
   noun

   A standard measure of a quantity or magnitude.

   The centimetre is a unit of length.

8. 8
   noun

   Ellipsis of international unit.

   This pill provides 500 units of Vitamin E.

Etymology

Formerly unite, a later form of unity; see unity.