UNIT: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for UNIT?

Need another word that means the same as “unit”? Find 49 synonyms and 30 related words for “unit” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Unit” are: social unit, unit of measurement, whole, building block, component, part, section, element, constituent, subdivision, portion, segment, module, item, member, ingredient, factor, feature, piece, fragment, division, sector, subsection, branch, arm, wing, compartment, detachment, contingent, outfit, company, squadron, corps, regiment, brigade, platoon, battalion, force, garrison, legion, formation, crew, squad, detail, quantity, measure, measurement, denomination, value

Unit as a Noun

Definitions of "Unit" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “unit” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A device that has a specified function, especially one forming part of a complex mechanism.
• Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.
• A subdivision of a larger military grouping.
• The smallest measure of investment in a unit trust.
• A police car.
• A self-contained part of an educational course.
• A self-contained section in a building or group of buildings.
• A single undivided whole.
• A single manufactured item.
• A department of an institution with a specific function.
• A quantity chosen as a standard in terms of which other quantities may be expressed.
• An individual thing or person regarded as single and complete but which can also form an individual component of a larger or more complex whole.
• An assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity.
• The number one.
• A single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else.
• A piece of furniture or equipment for fitting with others like it or made of complementary parts.
• An organization regarded as part of a larger social group.
• The digit before the decimal point in decimal notation, representing an integer less than ten.
• An individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole.

Synonyms of "Unit" as a noun (49 Words)

arm	A side part of a chair or other seat on which a sitter can rest their arm. She held the baby in her arms.
battalion	A large body of troops ready for battle, especially an infantry unit forming part of a brigade. A battalion of ants.
branch	A part of a forked or branching shape. A branch of Congress.
brigade	A group of people with a characteristic in common. The anti smoking brigade.
building block	The occupants of a building.
company	Organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical. You re not much company I might as well go home.
compartment	A separate section or part of a structure or container. There s some ice cream in the freezer compartment.
component	An abstract part of something. Spare components for cars.
constituent	A component part of something. The essential constituents of the human diet.
contingent	A body of troops or police sent to join a larger force. Six warships were stationed off the coast with a contingent of 2 000 marines.
corps	A body of people associated together. At 9 30 a m the press corps was handed what looked to be a routine list of orders.
crew	A group of people associated in some way. A crew of assorted computer geeks.
denomination	A branch of any religion. The denomination of a consideration as relevant or irrelevant.
detachment	The state of being objective or aloof. A truck containing a detachment of villagers.
detail	Itemized information about someone. The classical French detail of the building s facade.
division	A group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category. The division of his estates between the two branches of his family.
element	Each of more than one hundred substances that cannot be chemically interconverted or broken down into simpler substances and are primary constituents of matter Each element is distinguished by its atomic number i e the number of protons in the nuclei of its atoms. In your element.
factor	With numeral a sunscreen of the sun protection factor specified. Genes were formerly called factors.
feature	A prominent attribute or aspect of something. The feature tonight is Casablanca.
force	The army navy and air force of a country. Left wing guerrilla forces.
formation	Creation by mental activity. The formation of the Great Rift Valley.
fragment	A small part broken off or separated from something. Small fragments of pottery.
garrison	The building occupied by a garrison. The entire garrison was mustered on the parade ground.
ingredient	A component part or element of something. The affair contains all the ingredients of an insoluble mystery.
item	An individual instance of a type of symbol. They reduced the price on many items.
legion	Archaic terms for army. Legions of photographers and TV cameras.
measure	Measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals used as a reference in making measurements. A furlong is an obsolete measure of length.
measurement	The size, length, or amount of something, as established by measuring. Accurate measurement is essential.
member	An organization that is a member of another organization especially a state that belongs to a group of nations. The library was a member of the interlibrary loan association.
module	Any of a number of distinct but interrelated units from which a program may be built up or into which a complex activity may be analysed. A networking module.
outfit	Any cohesive unit such as a military company. Her wedding outfit.
part	The melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music. They resisted every effort on his part.
piece	A financial share. It is not known who created this piece.
platoon	A team of policemen working under the military platoon system. A platoon player.
portion	A person’s destiny or lot. Burger joints offering huge portions.
quantity	The figure or symbol representing a quantity. The quantity and quality of the fruit can be controlled.
regiment	Rule or government. The powers of ecclesiastical regiment which none but the Church should wield.
section	A small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately. He always turns first to the business section.
sector	The minimum track length that can be assigned to store information unless otherwise specified a sector of data consists of 512 bytes. He was helpless in an important sector of his life.
segment	A part of a figure cut off by a line or plane intersecting it. A segment of an orange.
social unit	A party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity.
squad	A small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime. The vice squad.
squadron	A principal division of an armoured or cavalry regiment, consisting of two or more troops. He immediately commissioned a squadron of architects.
subdivision	Any taxonomic subcategory, especially (in botany) one that ranks below division and above class. Subject subdivisions.
subsection	A division of a section. Each chapter has a different theme and numerous subsections.
unit of measurement	An assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity.
value	Relative darkness or lightness of a color. He has old fashioned values.
whole	All of something including all its component elements or parts. The effects will last for the whole of his life.
wing	The wing of a bird as food. He preferred the drumsticks to the wings.

Usage Examples of "Unit" as a noun

• The coach said the offensive unit did a good job.
• After the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit.
• A sink unit.
• The word is a basic linguistic unit.
• Large areas of land made up of smaller units.
• Change per unit volume.
• He returned to Germany with his unit.
• The dollar is the United States unit of currency.
• The intensive-care unit.
• The sentence as a unit of grammar.
• A unit of wheat is a bushel.
• One- and two-bedroom units.
• The gearbox and transmission unit.
• Fifty units of electricity.
• He eased into his unit and flicked the siren on.
• An idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another.
• The family unit.
• A unit of measurement.
• Students take three compulsory core units.
• The reduced the number of units and installations.
• Unit cost.
• Units of nucleic acids.
• The team is a unit.

Associations of "Unit" (30 Words)

ampere	A former unit of electric current slightly smaller than the SI ampere.
bale	Make into a bale. World cotton consumption was a record 86 m bales.
bunch	Form into a bunch. A bunch of trees.
bundle	Make into a bundle. He bundled up his few possessions.
centimeter	A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
comprise	Be composed of. The land he conquered comprised several provinces.
density	The quantity of mass per unit volume of a substance. Areas of low population density.
duplex	Having two parts used technically of a device or process duplex adj allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously. A duplex transaction.
dyne	A unit of force that, acting on a mass of one gram, increases its velocity by one centimetre per second every second along the direction that it acts.
fathomable	Capable of being penetrated or comprehended.
five	A playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips.
gram	A metric unit of mass equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
inch	Advance slowly as if by inches. I had no intention of budging an inch.
measurable	Of distinguished importance. Measurable depths.
meter	Stamp with a meter indicating the postage. Meter the mail.
metric	The metric system. The metric equation of Minkowski space time.
metrical	Based on the meter as a standard of measurement. Metrical equivalents.
multiple	(of a disease, injury, etc.) complex in its nature or effects; affecting several parts of the body. Words with multiple meanings.
organizational	Of or relating to an organization. Organizational heads.
ounce	A unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams. Robyn summoned up every ounce of strength.
packet	The contents of a packet. Packeted fruit pies.
penny	A one-cent coin. We didn t get paid a penny.
pentameter	A line of verse consisting of five metrical feet, or (in Greek and Latin verse) of two halves each of two feet and a long syllable.
phonology	The system of contrastive relationships among the speech sounds that constitute the fundamental components of a language.
pound	The act of pounding delivering repeated heavy blows. Pound the roots with a heavy flat stone.
ream	Enlarge with a reamer. Ream oranges.
syllabic	Having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities. The recreation of classical syllabic metres.
ton	A unit of weight or volume of sea cargo equal to a metric ton 1 000 kg or 40 cu ft. All of a sudden I had tons of friends.
vowel	A letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel.
wingspan	The maximum extent across the wings of an aircraft or of a bird or other flying animal, measured from tip to tip. An eagle with a wingspan of 7 ft.