Unit

French Meaning

unité

appareil

groupe

bloc

service

cellule

élément

centre

casier

English Meaning

  1. An individual, group, structure, or other entity regarded as an elementary structural or functional constituent of a whole.
  2. A group regarded as a distinct entity within a larger group.
  3. A mechanical part or module.
  4. An entire apparatus or the equipment that performs a specific function.
  5. A precisely specified quantity in terms of which the magnitudes of other quantities of the same kind can be stated.
  6. Medicine The quantity of a vaccine, serum, drug, or other agent necessary to produce a specific effect.
  7. A fixed amount of scholastic study used as a basis for calculating academic credits, usually measured in hours of classroom instruction or laboratory work.
  8. A section of an academic course focusing on a selected theme: a unit on Native Americans.
  9. The number immediately to the left of the decimal point in the Arabic numeral system.
  10. Mathematics The lowest positive whole number; one.
  11. Mathematics An element of a ring with a multiplicative inverse.