Unit | Mean of unit in English Dictionary

/ˈjuːnət/

• Noun
• a single thing, person, or group that is a part of something larger
1. The family is the basic unit of society.
2. The search party broke up into smaller units.
3. Their army unit guarded the border.
• a part of a hospital where a particular type of care is provided
1. the intensive care unit
2. a trauma unit
• a particular amount of length, time, money, etc., that is used as a standard for counting or measuring
1. Feet and meters are units of length.
2. units of measurement
3. The dollar is the principal unit of American currency.

• a part of a school course or textbook with a particular subject
1. Our class is finishing up the unit on World War I.
• an amount of work used for measuring a student's progress towards earning a degree in a school, college, etc.
1. Each unit of credit represents 120 classroom hours.
• an individual item of one of the products that a company makes and sells
1. Last year the company sold 200,000 units of that particular model of car.
• a machine or part of a machine or system that has a particular use
1. an air-conditioning unit
2. a portable/handheld unit
3. the computer's central processing unit
• one of a number of apartments in a building
1. The building is divided into eight units.
• a set of similar pieces of furniture (such as shelves or cabinets) that are grouped or attached together
1. a built-in storage/wall unit
2. (chiefly Brit) a kitchen unit [=a set of kitchen cabinets and appliances]