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unit

(noun)
1. A standard measure of a quantity.
  The centimetre is a unit of length.
2. An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
  He was a member of a special police unit.
3. A self-contained military organization; usually a battalion, regiment, or naval ship.
4. A member of a military organization.
  The fifth tank brigade moved in with 20 units. (i.e., 20 tanks)
5. Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organizationJoint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006)..
6. An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
7. A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or used. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.
8. 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.
9. An element of a ring having a multiplicative inverse. (Formerly just the identity element 1_R of a ring.)
10. (commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
  We shipped nearly twice as many units this month as last month.
11. (UK) (electricity) One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
(adjective)
1. For each unit.
  We have to keep our unit costs down if we want to make a profit.
2. Having a size or magnitude of one.
  All solutions lie within the unit disc centered at the origin.

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