unit
Definition of unit:
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part of speech: noun
One: a single thing or person: the least whole number: anything taken as one: any known determinate quantity by constant application of which any other quantity is measured.
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part of speech: noun
A single person or thing; the least whole number; in math., a certain dimension or magnitude assumed as a standard of measure.
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Common misspellings:
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- uniy (0.9%)
- uit (4.6%)
- unis (0.6%)
- uniit (0.6%)
- unot (0.3%)
- unitl (32.7%)
- premesis (0.3%)
- uni (4.0%)
- unti (26.3%)
- ect (0.3%)
- uniot (1.2%)
- unitll (0.9%)
- init (3.5%)
- eunit (0.6%)
- unt (6.9%)
- uint (6.6%)
- unitis (0.3%)
- uinit (1.4%)
- ubnit (0.6%)
- usit (0.9%)
- unwt (0.6%)
- uilt (0.3%)
- ubit (1.7%)
- unit3 (1.2%)
- untit (0.9%)
- fitment (0.3%)
- kunit (0.6%)
- uunit (1.2%)
Usage examples for unit:
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There the township, or town, was adopted as the more convenient unit
"Community Civics and Rural Life" – Arthur W. Dunn -
So long as the family is the unit of society, children should be hardened early to family life.
"Dear Enemy" – Jean Webster -
When the idea of the whole as a unit is under consideration employ a singular verb; as The regiment was in camp.
"How to Speak and Write Correctly" – Joseph Devlin -
These became very precious in the eyes of headquarters mess and wherever we went they went also, excepting when they were lent to a relieving unit the terms as to return being carefully arranged.
"The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918" – F.L. Morrison
