unit
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”
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”
An assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity.
“the team is a unit”
A single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else.
“units of nucleic acids”
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”
A single undivided whole.
“an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another”