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The word unit means any of several things: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 151 languages. ...

• Unit (housing), in Australia/New Zealand - a self-contained suite of rooms within a set of similar dwellings.
• Units of measurement, a fundamental quantity of measurement
• Units (Unix), a command-line computer program that does unit conversion
• Units conversion by factor-label, a widely used approach for performing Conversion of units
• A unit can be a general word for a module or device. For more specific example, see next entry.
• Functional unit, a component of a computer system such as the CPU
• A unit can refer to a self-contained section of a building (or maybe a structure such as a cabin) meant to be rented or otherwise occupied by a party, such as an apartment or business suite. See Apartment.
• In chemical engineering, a unit is a (usually) large vessel or section of a plant in which a unit operation goes on. See Chemical plant#Chemical processes.

Sam is a unit: The former Weights and Measures office in Middlesex, England. ... units is a Unix computer program for conversion of units of quantities. ... Many, if not most, parameters and measurements in the physical sciences and engineering are expressed as a numerical quantity and a corresponding dimensional unit; for example: 1000 kg/m³, 100 kPa/bar, 50 miles per hour, 1000 Btu/lb. ... Conversion of units refers to conversion factors between different units of measurement for the same quantity. ... In computer engineering, an execution unit is a part of a CPU that performs the operations and calculations called for by the program. ... This article is about the structure. ... Ore Extraction unit operations at Quincy Mine, Hancock, MI ca. ... A Chemical plant is an industrial process plant that manufactures chemicals, usually on a large scale. ...

• Unit of action, a discrete piece of action (or beat) in a theatrical presentation
• Multiple unit, a passenger train whose carriages have their own motors
• Unit of alcohol, 10 millilitres of pure ethanol in the UK
• In biochemistry, unit is the measure of enzyme activity.
• In a 19-inch rack a rack unit is a standard height of 1.75 inches
• Military units, including:
  • Unit 101, an Israeli special operations unit
  • Unit 731, a covert medical experiment unit of the Imperial Japanese Army, which researched biological warfare through human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and World War II
• A Strategic business unit
• A unit of blood, equal to one pint.^[1]

In entertainment: Units of Action, or Units (sometimes also called beats) were first suggested by Konstantin Stanislavski as a means of helping actors determine the through line or super objective of a role. ... This article is about Multiple Units vehicles. ... A large glass of red wine contains about three units of alcohol In Britain a system of units of alcohol is employed for an approximate measure of the amount of alcohol in different drinks. ... Enzyme assays are laboratory methods for measuring enzymatic activity. ... Rack-mounted redirects here. ... A military unit is an organisation within an armed force. ... Unit 101 was an Israeli special operations unit founded and led by Ariel Sharon on orders from Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in August 1953. ... Body disposal at Unit 731 Unit 731 was a covert biological warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried... Strategic Business Unit or SBU is understood as a business unit within the overall corporate identity which is distinguishable from other business because it serves a defined external market where management can conduct strategic planning in relation to products and markets. ... The pint is an English unit of volume or capacity in the imperial system and United States customary units, equivalent in each system to one half of a quart, and one eighth of a gallon. ...

• UNIT - Unified Intelligence Taskforce, a fictional entity in the Doctor Who television series
• Unit (album), an indie pop album by the Australian band Regurgitator
• G-Unit, a hip-hop music group
• The Unit, a television series
• In filmmaking, see second unit.

In mathematics: ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... G-Unit is a rap group which consists of 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo, Young Buck, (The) Game, R & B singer Olivia and, most recently, Spider Loc. ... The Unit is an American action-drama television series that focuses on a top-secret military unit modeled after the real life Delta Force. ... In film, the second unit is a separate team that shoots footage which is of lesser importance for the final motion picture, as opposed to the first unit, which shoots all scenes involving actors, or at least the stars of the film. ...

• Unit vector, a vector with length 1
• Unit circle, the circle with radius 1 centered at the origin
• Unit interval, the interval of all real numbers between 0 and 1
• Imaginary unit, i, whose square is -1
• Root of unity, a complex number, a power of which is 1
• Unit (ring theory), an element that is invertible with respect to ring multiplication
• Unit type, a type that allows only one value
• In category theory, there is a natural transformation called the unit from the identity functor to the composition of two adjoint functors

In mathematics, a unit vector in a normed vector space is a vector (often a spatial vector) whose length, (or magnitude) is 1. ... Illustration of a unit circle. ... In mathematics, the unit interval is the interval [0,1], that is the set of all real numbers x such that zero is less than or equal to x and x is less than or equal to one. ... In mathematics, the imaginary unit (or sometimes the Latin or the Greek iota, see below) allows the real number system to be extended to the complex number system . ... In mathematics, the nth roots of unity, or de Moivre numbers, are all the complex numbers which yield 1 when raised to a given power n. ... In mathematics, a unit in a ring R is an element u such that there is v in R with uv = vu = 1R. That is, u is an invertible element of the multiplicative monoid of R. The units of R form a group U(R) under multiplication, the group of... A unit type is a mathematical type that allows only one value. ... In mathematics, category theory deals in an abstract way with mathematical structures and relationships between them. ... In category theory, an abstract branch of mathematics, a natural transformation provides a way of transforming one functor into another while respecting the internal structure (i. ...

References

1. ^ Blood Facts - BloodBook, Blood Information for Life

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