UNIT definition

(1) 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"

(2) A single undivided whole

"An idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another"

(3) An organization regarded as part of a larger social group

"The coach said the offensive unit did a good job"

"After the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit"

(4) A single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else

"Units of nucleic acids"

(5) 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"

(6) An individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole

"The reduced the number of units and installations"

"The word is a basic linguistic unit"