Definition of Unit

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Definition of Unit

Unit

A single thing or person.

The least whole number; one.

A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings.

Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind.

A single thing, as a magnitude or number, regarded as an undivided whole.

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Unit Quotations

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash

A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
George S. Patton

You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.
Omar N. Bradley

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
Arthur Conan Doyle

When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the idea unit.
Jerry Falwell

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
Jacques Lacan

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
Clare Boothe Luce

Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.
Bob Geldof

Unit Translations

unit in Danish is enhed, ener
unit in Dutch is eenheid, unit
unit in Italian is meccanismo, elemento, semplice
unit in Portuguese is unidade
unit in Spanish is utensilo
unit in Swedish is enhet

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