What part of speech is unit?

Unit can be categorized as an adjective and a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. unit is a noun, singular of units.
  • 2. unit is an adjective.

Inflections

Noun

Adjective

What does unit mean?

Definitions

Adjective

unit - For each unit.
unit - Having a size or magnitude of one.

Noun

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"
unit - a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else; "units of nucleic acids"
unit - a single undivided whole; "an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another"
unit - 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"
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"; "change per unit volume"
unit - an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; "how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit"

Examples of unit

#   Sentence  
1. noun The coach said the offensive unit did a good job.
2. noun After the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit.
3. noun An idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another.
4. noun The word is a basic linguistic unit.
5. noun The dollar is the United States unit of currency.
6. noun A unit of wheat is a bushel.
7. noun Change per unit volume.
8. noun The team is a unit.
9. noun As far as George Bush knew, he and his unit could have been transferred to Vietnam.
10. noun A 1971 evaluation called Bush “an exceptionally fine young officer and pilot” who “continually flies intercept missions with the unit to increase his proficiency even further.”.
11. noun "The Prophet's guidance," says Michael Scheuer, an al-Qaeda analyst who recently retired from the CIA and once headed its Bin Laden unit, "was always, Before you attack someone, warn them very clearly..." The anthrax mailings followed the pattern of letters they sent in January 1997 to newspaper branches in Washington, D.C. and New York City, as well as symbolic targets.
12. noun "What we know is that he's always said it was a religious obligation to have the same weapons as their enemies," former CIA OBL unit counter terrorism chief Michael Scheuer has said.
13. noun Performance tests will either be performed on a project basis or a unit by unit basis in a given project.
14. noun The unit of measure against which the price is quoted shall be US Dollars.
15. noun The price is quoted in US Dollars per unit of volume, which will be the Contractual Currency.
Sentence  
noun
The coach said the offensive unit did a good job.
After the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit.
An idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another.
The word is a basic linguistic unit.
The dollar is the United States unit of currency.
A unit of wheat is a bushel.
Change per unit volume.
The team is a unit.
As far as George Bush knew, he and his unit could have been transferred to Vietnam.
A 1971 evaluation called Bush “an exceptionally fine young officer and pilot” who “continually flies intercept missions with the unit to increase his proficiency even further.”.
"The Prophet's guidance," says Michael Scheuer, an al-Qaeda analyst who recently retired from the CIA and once headed its Bin Laden unit, "was always, Before you attack someone, warn them very clearly..." The anthrax mailings followed the pattern of letters they sent in January 1997 to newspaper branches in Washington, D.C. and New York City, as well as symbolic targets.
"What we know is that he's always said it was a religious obligation to have the same weapons as their enemies," former CIA OBL unit counter terrorism chief Michael Scheuer has said.
Performance tests will either be performed on a project basis or a unit by unit basis in a given project.
The unit of measure against which the price is quoted shall be US Dollars.
The price is quoted in US Dollars per unit of volume, which will be the Contractual Currency.

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