n. 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"

n. 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"

n. 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"

n. [a single undivided entity or whole]

n. a definite quantity expressing "one"

n. a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else; "units of nucleic acids"

n. 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"

n. a single undivided whole; "an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another"