unit meaning
EN
[ˈjuː.nɪt] [-uːnɪt] 
US WUnit
- Unit may refer to:
FR unit 
- NounPLunitsPREuni-
- (sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.
- The centimetre is a unit of length.
- The number one.
- Short form of international unit.
- This pill provides 500 units of Vitamin E.
- An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
- He was a member of a special police unit.
- (military) INF A member of a military organization.
- The fifth tank brigade moved in with 20 units. (i.e., 20 tanks)
- (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.
- (US, military) An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
- (US, military) A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or used. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.
- (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.
- (algebra) The identity element, neutral element.
- (algebra) An element having an inverse, an invertible element.
- (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.
- (commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
- We shipped nearly twice as many units this month as last month.
- (Britain, electricity) One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
- (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.
- (historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
- (sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.
- Adjective
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The scale measures longness in units of length. Its ordinality guarantees that objects with greater longnesses are assigned more unites of length when measured.
- After 10 years, a unit price of between 40p-50p could reduce the number of alcohol-related deaths in Wales by 200-250, she said.
- JUnit is the unit testing framework for the Java programming language.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- A major challenge in producing recombinant rNA is the inability of the head domain to fold and tetramerize as an independent unit.
- This may be, as was our presurvey suspicion, due to a lack of “lean” type managerial thinking principles being employed within those units.
- hey have proven their worths as individual fighting men and their worth as a unit.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of unit in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Adjectives
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "unit" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.