Definition of unit

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Unit (n.) Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind..

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Boat-tail :: Boat-tail (n.) A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States..
Scup :: Scup (n.) A marine sparoid food fish (Stenotomus chrysops, or S. argyrops), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also porgee, paugy, porgy, scuppaug..
Transformation :: Transformation (n.) Any change in an organism which alters its general character and mode of life, as in the development of the germ into the embryo, the egg into the animal, the larva into the insect (metamorphosis), etc.; also, the change which the histological units of a tissue are prone to undergo. See Metamorphosis..
Sew :: Sew (v. t.) To unite or fasten together by stitches, as with a needle and thread..
Dollar :: Dollar (n.) A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains..
Symplectic :: Symplectic (a.) Plaiting or joining together; -- said of a bone next above the quadrate in the mandibular suspensorium of many fishes, which unites together the other bones of the suspensorium..
Thermal :: Thermal (a.) Of or pertaining to heat; warm; hot; as, the thermal unit; thermal waters..
Consolidant :: Consolidant (a.) Serving to unite or consolidate; having the quality of consolidating or making firm.
Link :: Link (n.) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; -- applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction..
Osteocolla :: Osteocolla (n.) A cellular calc tufa, which in some places forms incrustations on the stems of plants, -- formerly supposed to have the quality of uniting fractured bones..
Conjunction :: Conjunction (n.) The act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league..
Inosculate :: Inosculate (v. t.) To unite by apposition or contact, as two vessels in an animal body..
Rally :: Rally (v. i.) To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite..
Section :: Section (n.) A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines, or of a people considered as distinct..
Hitch :: Hitch (v. t.) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
Disannex :: Disannex (v. t.) To disunite; to undo or repeal the annexation of.
Vat :: Vat (n.) A measure for liquids, and also a dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectoliter of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States..
Agglutination :: Agglutination (n.) The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
Acid :: Acid (n.) One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their n
Watt :: Watt (n.) A unit of power or activity equal to 107 C.G.S. units of power, or to work done at the rate of one joule a second. An English horse power is approximately equal to 746 watts..
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