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How to sign: 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";
Similiar / Same: unit of measurement
Categories: definite quantity
Within this category: absorption unit, acceleration unit, angular unit, area unit, bit, Brinell number, computer memory unit, denier, diopter, electromagnetic unit, electrostatic unit, explosive unit, force unit, Karat, langley, mass unit, measuring unit, megabit, megaflop, metric unit, miles per gallon, MIPS, monetary unit, pain unit, point, pressure unit, printing unit, sound unit, telephone unit, temperature unit, teraflop, unit of viscosity, volume unit, weight unit, work unit
How to sign: a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else
"units of nucleic acids";
Similiar / Same: building block
Categories: thing
Within this category: chain, couple, group, molecule, unit cell
How to sign: 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";
Similiar / Same: whole thing, whole
Categories: object, physical object
