Unit

English Meaning

A single thing or person.

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.