What Means 3 Continuing Education Units
u·nit
(yo͞o′nĭt)n.
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. A mechanical part or module.
b. An entire apparatus or the equipment that performs a specific function.
4. A precisely specified quantity in terms of which the magnitudes of other quantities of the same kind can be stated.
5. Medicine The quantity of a vaccine, serum, drug, or other agent necessary to produce a specific effect.
6.
a. A fixed amount of scholastic study used as a basis for calculating academic credits, usually measured in hours of classroom instruction or laboratory work.
b. A section of an academic course focusing on a selected theme: a unit on Native Americans.
7. The number immediately to the left of the decimal point in the Arabic numeral system.
8. Mathematics
a. The lowest positive whole number; one.
b. An element of a ring with a multiplicative inverse.
[Back-formation from unity.]
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unit
(ˈjuːnɪt)n
1. a single undivided entity or whole
2. any group or individual, esp when regarded as a basic element of a larger whole
3. (Mechanical Engineering) a mechanical part or integrated assembly of parts that performs a subsidiary function: a filter unit.
4. (Mechanical Engineering) a complete system, apparatus, or establishment that performs a specific function: a production unit.
5. (Military) a subdivision of a larger military formation
6. Also called: unit of measurement a standard amount of a physical quantity, such as length, mass, energy, etc, specified multiples of which are used to express magnitudes of that physical quantity: the second is a unit of time.
7. (Pharmacology) the amount of a drug, vaccine, etc, needed to produce a particular effect
8. (Brewing) a standard measure used in calculating alcohol intake and its effect
9. (Mathematics) maths
a. (usually plural) the first position in a place-value counting system, representing a single-digit number: in the decimal system the number 27 has 7 units and 2 tens.
b. (modifier) having a value defined as one for the system: unit vector.
10. (Mathematics) maths logic Also called: unit set a set having a single member
11. (Logic) maths logic Also called: unit set a set having a single member
14. (Railways) NZ a self-propelled railcar
[C16: back formation from unity, perhaps on the model of digit]
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u•nit
(ˈyu nɪt)n.
1. a single entity; one person or thing.
2. any group of things or persons regarded as an entity: They formed a cohesive unit.
3. one of the individuals, parts, or elements into which a whole may be divided or analyzed.
4. one of a number of things, organizations, etc., identical or equivalent in function or form: a rental unit.
5. any specified amount of a quantity, as of length, volume, or time, by comparison with which any other quantity of the same kind is measured.
6. the least positive integer; one.
7. Also called unit's place. (in a mixed or whole number) the position of the first digit to the left of the decimal point.
8. a machine, part, or system of machines having a specified purpose; apparatus: a heating unit.
9. a quantity of educational instruction, usu. determined by the number of hours of classroom or laboratory work.
10. Mil. a subdivision of an organized body of soldiers.
[1570; coined by John Dee as a translation of Greek mónas]
Unit.
Unitarian.
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unit
1. Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organization.
2. An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
3. A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or used. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.
4. 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.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
Unit
a group of troops; a special department; a part of a collective whole—Wilkes.Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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| Noun | 1. |  unit - any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange; "the dollar is the United States unit of currency"; "a unit of wheat is a bushel"; "change per unit volume"unit of measurement definite quantity - a specific measure of amount measuring block, measuring unit - a unit of measurement denier - a unit of measurement for the fineness of silk or nylon or rayon; "with an evening dress one wears 10 denier stockings" diopter, dioptre - a unit of measurement of the refractive power of a lens which is equal to the reciprocal of the focal length measured in meters; used by oculists karat, kt, carat - the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold absorption unit - a unit for measuring absorption acceleration unit - a unit for measuring acceleration angular unit - a unit of measurement for angles area unit, square measure - a system of units used to measure areas capacity measure, capacity unit, cubage unit, cubature unit, cubic content unit, cubic measure, displacement unit, volume unit - a unit of measurement of volume or capacity computer memory unit - a unit for measuring computer memory electromagnetic unit, emu - any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism explosive unit - any unit for measuring the force of explosions force unit - a unit of measurement of physical force linear measure, linear unit - a unit of measurement of length metric unit, metric - a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds); "convert all the measurements to metric units"; "it is easier to work in metric" miles per gallon - the distance traveled in a vehicle powered by one gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel monetary unit - a unit of money megaflop, MFLOP, million floating point operations per second - (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system teraflop, trillion floating point operations per second - (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system million instructions per second, MIPS - (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system); "4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second" pain unit - a unit measuring the intensity of pain pressure unit - a unit measuring force per unit area printing unit - a unit of measurement for printing sound unit - any acoustic unit of measurement telephone unit - a unit of measurement for telephone use temperature unit - a unit of measurement for temperature weight unit, weight - a unit used to measure weight; "he placed two weights in the scale pan" mass unit - a unit of measurement for mass unit of viscosity - a unit of measurement for viscosity energy unit, heat unit, work unit - a unit of measurement for work langley - unit of solar radiation Brinell number - measure of the hardness of a material point - the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest; "he scored 20 points in the first half"; "a touchdown counts 6 points" bit - a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states; "there are 8 bits in a byte" electrostatic unit - any of various units of electricity based on forces of interaction between electric charges |
| 2. |  unit - an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole; "the reduced the number of units and installations"; "the word is a basic linguistic unit"component part, part, portion, component, constituent - something determined in relation to something that includes it; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"; "the animal constituent of plankton" | |
| 3. |  unit - an organization regarded as part of a larger social group; "the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit"social unit organization, organisation - a group of people who work together klavern - a local unit of the Ku Klux Klan administrative body, administrative unit - a unit with administrative responsibilities company - a unit of firefighters including their equipment; "a hook-and-ladder company" family, household, menage, home, house - a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home" general delivery, poste restante - the part of a post office that handles mail for persons who call for it instrumentality - a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose; "are the judicial instrumentalities of local governments adequate?"; "he studied the French instrumentalities for law enforcement" ICU, intensive care unit - a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care member - an organization that is a member of another organization (especially a state that belongs to a group of nations); "the library was a member of the interlibrary loan association"; "Canada is a member of the United Nations" military force, military group, military unit, force - a unit that is part of some military service; "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men" task force - a semipermanent unit created to carry out a continuing task team, squad - a cooperative unit (especially in sports) den - a unit of 8 to 10 cub scouts work party, crew, gang - an organized group of workmen combination - a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose; "they were a winning combination" crew - the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.) scout group, scout troop, troop - a unit of Girl or Boy Scouts outfit - any cohesive unit such as a military company fifth column, Trojan horse - a subversive group that supports the enemy and engages in espionage or sabotage; an enemy in your midst political entity, political unit - a unit with political responsibilities side - one of two or more contesting groups; "the Confederate side was prepared to attack" working group, working party - a group of people working together temporarily until some goal is achieved; "the working group was supposed to report back in two weeks" | |
| 4. |  unit - a single undivided whole; "an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another"whole - all of something including all its component elements or parts; "Europe considered as a whole"; "the whole of American literature" one - a single person or thing; "he is the best one"; "this is the one I ordered" | |
| 5. |  unit - a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else; "units of nucleic acids"building block thing - a separate and self-contained entity chemical chain, chain - (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule) couple - (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines part, piece - a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite" unit cell - the smallest group of atoms or molecules whose repetition at regular intervals in three dimensions produces the lattices of a crystal chemical group, radical, group - (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule molecule - (physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound | |
| 6. |  unit - an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; "how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit"whole object, physical object - a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow; "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects" congener - a whole (a thing or person) of the same kind or category as another; "lard was also used, though its congener, butter, was more frequently employed"; "the American shopkeeper differs from his European congener" animate thing, living thing - a living (or once living) entity natural object - an object occurring naturally; not made by man artefact, artifact - a man-made object taken as a whole assembly - a unit consisting of components that have been fitted together item - a whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection; "they reduced the price on many items" part, portion - something less than the whole of a human artifact; "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together" segment, section - one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object; "a section of a fishing rod"; "metal sections were used below ground"; "finished the final segment of the road" aggregate, total, totality, sum - the whole amount |
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unit
noun
2. section, company, group, force, detail, division, cell, squad, crew, outfit, faction, corps, brigade, regiment, battalion, legion, contingent, squadron, garrison, detachment, platoon a secret military unit
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unit
nounA group of people organized for a particular purpose:
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Translations
وَحْدَةوَحْدَةٌ رقميَّه وَحْدَة نَقْدِيَّه وَحْدَه سكنيَّه
единица
jednotka jednička
enhed ener
ühik üksus
yksikkö kappale osasto
jedinica
egység
eining tala í einingarsæti
単一体
단위
elements indivīds mērvienība vienība viens
enota celica
enhet
หน่วย
đơn vị
unit
[ˈjuːnɪt]
A. N
1. (Admin, Elec, Mech, Math, Mil) → unidad f (Univ) (for marking purposes) → unidad f de valor (Tech) (= mechanism) → conjunto m
administrative/linguistic/monetary unit → unidad f administrativa/lingüística/monetaria
unit of account → unidad f de cuenta
a unit of measurement → una unidad de medida
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
unit
[ˈjuːnɪt] n
(= complete thing) → unité f
the basic family unit → l'unité familiale de base
(MILITARY, POLICE) → unité f
(= group of people working together) → unité f
the research unit → l'unité de recherche
(= department) (in hospital, industrial complex, studio) → unité f
production unit → unité f de production
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
unit
n
(= entity, Mil) → Einheit f; (= set of equipment) → Anlage f, → Einheit f; camera unit → Kameraeinheit f; X-ray unit → Röntgenanlage f
(= section) → Einheit f; (of furniture) → Element nt; (of machine) → Element nt, → Teil nt; (of organization) → Abteilung f; (of course book) → Lektion f; power unit → Aggregat nt; (of a rocket) → Triebwerk nt; where did you get those units in your bedroom? → wo haben Sie die Anbauelemente in Ihrem Schlafzimmer her?; the new research unit → die neue Forschungsabteilung or -gruppe; the family as the basic unit → die Familie als Grundelement
(= measure) → Einheit f; unit of account/length → Rechnungs-/Längeneinheit f
(Math) → Einer m; tens and units → Zehner und Einer pl
unit
:
unit-linked
adj (Insur) → fondsgebunden
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
unit
(ˈjuːnit) noun1. a single thing, individual etc within a group. The building is divided into twelve different apartments or living units. eenheid وَحْدَه سكنيَّه част unidade jednotka die Einheit enhed μονάδα unidad üksus واحد yksikkö unité יחידה इकाई, टुकडी़ jedinica egység unit eining unità 構成単位 1개, 한 사람, (독립된) 집단 vienetas, padala vienība; elements; indivīds unit eenheid enhet, element, avdeling segment unidade element часть; блок; секция jednotka enota jedinica enhet หนึ่งหน่วย birim, ünite 單元 секція; елемент اکائي đơn vị 单元
2. an amount or quantity that is used as a standard in a system of measuring or coinage. The dollar is the standard unit of currency in America. geldeenheid وَحْدَة نَقْدِيَّه единица unidade jednotka die Einheit enhed μονάδα unidad ühik معیار؛ واحد mittayksikkö, rahayksikkö unité יחידה इकाई jedinica (mérték)egység unit eining unità 単位 (길이, 부피, 수량 등을 나타내는 기준으로서의) 단위 vienetas mērvienība unit eenheid enhet jednostka unidade unitate единица измерения;денежная единица jednotka enota jedinica enhet หน่วยวัด birim, ölçü birimi 計量單位 одиниця يونٹ، مقدار đơn vị (tiền tệ) 计量单位
3. the smallest whole number, 1, or any number between 1 and 9. In the number 23, 2 is a ten, and 3 is a unit. syfer وَحْدَةٌ رقميَّه цифра unidade jednička der Einer ener μονάδα unidad üheline یکان ykkönen unité אחד इकाई jedinična vrijednost egyes satuan tala í einingarsæti unità １の位の数 양의 최소 정수 vienetas (matem.) viens angka se eenheid, grondgetal tallet én, enhet jedność unidade unitate единица jednotka enica cifra jedinica ental เลขหลักหน่วย bir, 1 sayısı 最小整數1，個位數 одиниця مجموعہ số nguyên nhỏ nhất 最小整数，一，个位数
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
unit
→ وَحْدَة jednotka enhed Einheit μονάδα unidad yksikkö unité jedinica unità 単一体 단위 eenheid enhet jednostka unidade единица enhet หน่วย ünite đơn vị 个体Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
u·nit
n. unidad.
1. estándar de medida;
unidad internacional → international unit
2. unidad fisiológica, la más mínima división de un órgano capaz de realizar una función;
motor ___ → ___ motora.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
unit
n unidad f; coronary care — unidad coronaria; intensive care — (ICU) unidad de cuidados intensivos (UCI), unidad de terapia intensiva (UTI) (SA); international — unidad internacional; — of blood unidad de sangre
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