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  2. a single item or a separate part of something larger: The first year of the course is divided into four units. This apartment building has 60 units (= separate apartments). A unit is also a small machine or part of a machine that has a particular purpose: the central processing unit of a computer.

  3. A unit is a group within an armed force or police force, whose members fight or work together or carry out a particular task. One secret military unit tried to contaminate the village's drinking water.

  4. The meaning of UNIT is the first and least natural number : one. How to use unit in a sentence.

  5. noun. a single thing or person. any group of things or persons regarded as an entity: They formed a cohesive unit. one of the individuals or groups that together constitute a whole; one of the parts or elements into which a whole may be divided or analyzed. one of a number of things, organizations, etc., identical or equivalent in function or form:

  6. 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.

  7. a single thing, person or group that is complete by itself but can also form part of something larger. After 1946 the British Government treated the four territorial divisions as a single unit. The basic unit of society is the family. The cell is the unit of which all living organisms are composed.

  8. Unit of measurement. Units of measurement give standards so that the numbers from our measurements refer to the same thing. Measurement is a process that uses numbers to describe a physical quantity. We can measure how big things are, how warm they are, how heavy they are, and many other features.

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