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Unit

noun

Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange. Synonym: unit of measurement. "A unit of wheat is a bushel" , "Change per unit volume"

An individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole. "The word is a basic linguistic unit"

An organization regarded as part of a larger social group. Synonym: social unit. "After the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit"

A single undivided whole.

A single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else. Synonym: building block.

An assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity. Synonym: whole. "The team is a unit"

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... of any kind in the New. If they could not get freeholds, they would not settle at all; thus they forced proprietors and companies to bid for their enterprise by selling land in small lots. So it happened that the freehold of modest proportions became the cherished unit of American farmers. The people who tilled the farms were drawn from every quarter of western Europe; but the freehold system gave a uniform cast to their economic ...

— History of the United States • Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard

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— The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition • Louis Christian Mullgardt

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— In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses • Henry Lawson

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