Unit
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Unit may refer to:
Science, technology, and medicine
- Unit of measurement, a definite magnitude of a physical quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law
- Astronomical unit, a unit of length roughly between the Earth and the Sun
- Blood unit, a measurement in blood transfusion is approximately 470ml [1]
- English units, a historical units of measurement used in England up to 1824
- Enzyme unit, a measurement of active enzyme in a sample
- Equivalent (chemistry), a unit of measurement used in chemistry and biology
- Geological unit or rock unit, a volume of identifiable rock or ice
- GNU Units, a software program for unit conversion
- International unit, a unit of measurement for nutrients and drugs
- Natural unit, a physical unit of measurement
- Statistical unit, a data point on which statistical analysis is performed
- Unit testing, a method by which individual units of source code
- Unit, a vessel or section of a chemical plant or other industrial plant where a step in a production process called a unit operation takes place
- Central processing unit, the electronic circuitry within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program
Mathematics
- Identity element
- 1 (number), the number 1
- Unit (ring theory), an element that is invertible with respect to ring multiplication
- Unit round-off, an upper bound on the relative error due to rounding in floating point arithmetic
- Unit angle, a full turn equal to an angle of 1
- Unit circle, a circle with a radius of length 1
- Unit cube, a cube with sides of length 1
- Unit impulse, an impulse of height 1
- Unit interval, an interval of distance 1
- Unit set, a singleton, a set with exactly 1 element
- Unit sphere, a sphere with a radius of length 1
- Unit square, a square with sides of length 1
- Unit type, a type allowing only one value in type theory
- Unit vector, a vector with length equal to 1
- A tuple of length 0; an empty tuple
Entertainment and the arts
- UNIT, a fictional military organization in the science fiction television series Doctor Who
- The Unit, an American television series
- Unit of action, a discrete piece of action (or beat) in a theatrical presentation
Music
- Unit (album), 1997 album by the Australian band Regurgitator
- Unit (Cristian Fleming) (born 1974), electronic musician based in New York City
- The Units, a synthpunk band
Other uses
- Unit (housing), a self-contained suite of rooms within a set of similar dwellings
- Unit of account, a monetary unit of measurement
- Unit of alcohol, a measure of the volume of pure ethanol in an alcoholic beverage
- Active service unit, the former Provisional Irish Republican Army cell
- Head unit, a component of a stereo system mounted inside of a vehicle
- Military unit, a homogeneous military organization whose administrative and command functions are self-contained
- Multiple unit, self-propelled train carriage capable of coupling other units of the same type
- Strategic business unit, a profit center which focuses on product offering and market segment
- Work unit, the name given to a place of employment in the People's Republic of China
- A course credit at a school or other educational institution
- The field goal unit in North American football
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Unit
- All pages with titles containing Unit
- UNITA, the second-largest political party in Angola
- Subunit (disambiguation)
- Air unit (disambiguation)
- Piece (disambiguation)
- Unite (disambiguation)
References
- ^ "Blood donation (giving blood) - What happens". N.H.S. Choices. N.H.S. / U.K. Government. Retrieved 3 December 2015.