Unit

The word unit means any of several things:

Unit (housing), in Australia/New Zealand - a self-contained suite of rooms within a set of similar dwellings. In common speech in Australia and New Zealand the word unit, when referring to housing usually means either an apartment, (where a group of apartments is contained in one
Units of measurement, a fundamental quantity of measurement
Units (Unix), a command-line computer program that does unit conversion
Units conversion by factor-label, a widely used approach for performing Conversion of units
A unit can be a general word for a module or device. Units is a Unix Computer program for Conversion of units of quantities Many if not most parameters and measurements in the physical sciences and engineering are expressed as a numerical quantity and a corresponding dimensional unit for example 1000 kg/m³ 100 Conversion of units refers to conversion factors between different Units of measurement for the same Quantity. For more specific example, see next entry.
Functional unit, a component of a computer system such as the CPU
A unit can refer to a self-contained section of a building (or maybe a structure such as a cabin) meant to be rented or otherwise occupied by a party, such as an apartment or business suite. In Computer engineering, an execution unit is a part of a CPU that performs the operations and calculations called for by the program. See Apartment.
In chemical engineering, a unit is a (usually) large vessel or section of a plant in which a unit operation goes on. In Chemical engineering and related fields a unit operation is a basic step in a Process. See Chemical plant#Chemical processes. A chemical plant is industrial process plant that manufactures (or otherwise processes Chemicals usually on a large scale
Unit of action, a discrete piece of action (or beat) in a theatrical presentation
Multiple unit, a passenger train whose carriages have their own motors
Unit of alcohol, 10 millilitres of pure ethanol in the UK
In biochemistry, unit is the measure of enzyme activity. Units of Action or Units (sometimes also called beats were first suggested by Konstantin Stanislavski as a means of helping actors determine the Through line or The term multiple unit or MU is used to describe a self-propelling train unit capable of coupling with other units of the same or similar type and still In Britain a unit of alcohol is defined as 10 millilitres (or approximately 8 Grams of Ethanol (ethyl alcohol Enzyme assays are Laboratory methods for measuring enzymatic activity
In a 19-inch rack a rack unit is a standard height of 1. 75 inches
Military units, including:
- Unit 101, an Israeli special operations unit
- Unit 731, a covert medical experiment unit of the Imperial Japanese Army, which researched biological warfare through human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and World War II
A Strategic business unit
A unit of blood, equal to one pint. A military organization is a way of structuring the armed forces of a State as a need to offer Military capability required by the National defence policy Unit 101 was a Special forces unit of the Israeli Defence Force (IDF founded and commanded by Ariel Sharon on orders from Prime Minister was a covert biological and Chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during Strategic Business Unit or SBU is understood as a Business unit within the overall Corporate identity which is distinguishable from other business because The pint is an English unit of Volume or capacity in the imperial system and United States customary units. ^[1]
Unit Corporation, a United States oil and gas producer

In entertainment:

UNIT - United Nations Intelligence Taskforce/Unified Intelligence Taskforce, a fictional entity in the Doctor Who television series
Unit (album), an indie pop album by the Australian band Regurgitator
G-Unit, a hip-hop music group
The Units, a synthpunk band from San Francisco from 1978 to 1984
The Unit, a television series
In filmmaking, see second unit. UNIT ( U nited N ations I ntelligence T askforce later the UN ified I ntelligence T askforce is a fictional military Unit is the second full-length album by Regurgitator, released in November 1997 G-Unit is an American hip hop group originating from New York City. The Units are a defunct early Electronic music / Punk rock / New Wave / Synthpunk band founded in San Francisco in 1978 and active until The Unit is an American action-drama television series that focuses on a top-secret military unit modeled after the real life Delta Force. In Film, the second unit is a team that shoots Footage which is of lesser importance for the final Motion picture, as opposed to the first unit which shoots

In mathematics:

Unit vector, a vector with length 1
Unit circle, the circle with radius 1 centered at the origin
Unit interval, the interval of all real numbers between 0 and 1
Imaginary unit, i, whose square is -1
Root of unity, a complex number, a power of which is 1
Unit (ring theory), an element that is invertible with respect to ring multiplication
Unit type, a type that allows only one value
In category theory, there is a natural transformation called the unit from the identity functor to the composition of two adjoint functors

References

^ Blood Facts - BloodBook, Blood Information for Life

In Mathematics, a unit vector in a Normed vector space is a vector (often a spatial vector) whose length is 1 (the unit length In Mathematics, a unit circle is In Mathematics, the unit interval is the interval, that is the set of all Real numbers x such that zero is less than or equal to x Definition By definition the imaginary unit i is one solution (of two of the Quadratic equation In Mathematics, the n th roots of unity, or de Moivre numbers are all the Complex numbers that yield 1 when raised to a given power In Mathematics, a unit in a ( Unital) ring R is an invertible element of R, i A unit type is a mathematical type that allows only one value (and thus can hold no information In Mathematics, category theory deals in an abstract way with mathematical Structures and relationships between them it abstracts from sets In Category theory, a branch of Mathematics, a natural transformation provides a way of transforming one Functor into another while respecting the internal

Dictionary

-noun

(sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.
An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
(military) A self-contained military organization; usually a battalion, regiment, or naval ship.
(military, informal) A member of a military organization.
(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<ref name="JP102">Joint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006).</ref>.
(US, Military) An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force<ref name="JP102"/>.
(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<ref name="JP102"/>.
(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<ref name="JP102"/>.
(algebra) An element of a ring having a multiplicative inverse. (Formerly just the identity element 1_R of a ring.)
(commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
(UK) (electricity) One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).

-adjective

For each unit.
(mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.

© 2009 citizendia.org; parts available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License, from http://en.wikipedia.org
network: | |