Usually means: Single, distinct element of measurement.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. unit: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. unit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Unit, unit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Unit, unit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Unit, Unit, unit, unit: Wordnik
  7. unit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. unit: Wiktionary
  9. unit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. unit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. unit: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Unit, unit: Dictionary.com
  13. unit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. unit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Unit (TV series), The Unit (season_The+Unit+++(season+++1)), The Unit (season 2), The Unit (season 3), The Unit (season 4), The Unit, The unit (tv series), The unit, UNI.T, UNIT (audio drama series), Uni.T, Unit (Cristian Fleming), Unit (Software Development), Unit (album), Unit (category theory), Unit (geology), Unit (housing), Unit (ring theory), Unit (statistics), Unit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Unit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. unit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. unit: Rhymezone
  19. unit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. unit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. unit: Free Dictionary
  22. unit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Unit, unit: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. unit: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. unit: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  26. UNIT: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  27. unit (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Unit: Miniature Wargaming Glossary
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  4. Unit (measurement), unit: Legal dictionary
  5. Unit: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Unit (measurement), unit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. International Publications (No longer online)
  3. Unit: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Unit (measurement), unit: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. unit, unit, unit: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. UNIT: Acronym Finder
  4. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. unit: Idioms

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Unit: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Unit: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. unit, unit, unit: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  5. Statistics (No longer online)
  6. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. unit: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Unit, U.N.I.T, U.N.I.T: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (mathematics) Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.
noun:  (sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.
noun:  The number one.
noun:  An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
noun:  (military, informal) A member of a military organization.
noun:  (commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
noun:  (US, UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any piece of equipment, such as an appliance, power tool, stereo system, computer, tractor, or machinery.
noun:  (retail) A structure used to display goods for sale (usually containing shelves, pegs or hooks)
noun:  (US, Australia, New Zealand) a measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household; an apartment where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storied buildings or a group of dwellings is in one or more single storey buildings, usually arranged around a driveway.
noun:  (medicine) A quantity of approximately 517 milliliters (1.1 U.S. pints) of blood.
noun:  (US, military) Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organization.
noun:  (US, military) An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
noun:  (US, military) A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or detailed. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.
noun:  (US, military) With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units.
noun:  (algebra) The identity element, neutral element.
noun:  (algebra) An element having an inverse, an invertible element; an associate of the unity.
noun:  (category theory) In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of the left adjoint functor to the composition of the right adjoint functor with the left adjoint functor.
noun:  (geology) A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it.
noun:  (UK) A unit of alcohol.
noun:  (UK, electricity) One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
noun:  (historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
noun:  A work unit.
noun:  (UK, Australia, slang) A physically large person.
noun:  (US, slang, vulgar) A penis, especially a large one.
adjective:  For each unit.
adjective:  (mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.
noun:  Ellipsis of international unit. [(pharmacology) A particular, minute unit of mass, defined differently for different substances, but so that varying substances of the same general type have the property that one international unit of the one has the same effect on the human body as one international unit of the other.]

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