Unit

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Unit may refer to:

General measurement

Science and technology

Physical sciences

  • Natural unit
    , a physical unit of measurement
  • Geological unit
    or rock unit, a volume of identifiable rock or ice
  • Astronomical unit, a unit of length roughly between the Earth and the Sun

Chemistry and medicine

Mathematics

  • Unit number, the number 1
  • Unit, identity element
  • Unit (ring theory), an element that is invertible with respect to ring multiplication
  • Unit, a tuple of length 0; an empty tuple
  • Statistical unit, a data point on which statistical analysis is performed
  • 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 fraction, a reciprocal of a positive integer
  • Unit imaginary number
    , square root of negative 1
  • Unit impulse
    , an impulse of height 1
  • Unit interval, an interval of distance 1
  • Unit matrix
    , a diagonal matrix such that all elements on the main diagonal are 1 and all the others are zero
  • Unit round-off
    , an upper bound on the relative error due to rounding in floating point
  • 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 vector, a vector with length equal to 1
  • Unit type, a type allowing only one value in type theory

Computing

  • Central processing unit, the electronic circuitry within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program
  • GNU Units, a software program for unit conversion
  • Rack unit, a unit of measure most commonly used to define the size of certain computing equipment
  • Unit testing, a method by which individual units of source code are tested

Business

  • Stock keeping unit, a discrete inventory management construct
  • Strategic business unit, a profit center which focuses on product offering and market segment
  • Unit of account, a monetary unit of measurement
  • Unit coin
    , a small coin or medallion (usually military), bearing an organization's insignia or emblem
  • Work unit, the name given to a place of employment in the People's Republic of China
  • Telephone card unit. When [1]bought contains a certain amount of units, which make up their own currency for making telephone calls, that may not necessarily correspond to the monetary cost of the actual telephone card.

Military

  • Active service unit, the former Provisional Irish Republican Army cell
  • Military unit
    , an homogeneous military organization whose administrative and command functions are self-contained
  • Sayeret Matkal (The Unit), the Israeli special forces unit

Arts and entertainment

  • UNIT, a fictional military organization in the science fiction television series Doctor Who
  • Unit of action, a discrete piece of action (or beat) in a theatrical presentation

Music

  • Unit (album), 1997 album by the Australian band Regurgitator
  • The Units
    , a synthpunk band

Television

Other uses

  • Unit of alcohol
    , a measure of the volume of pure ethanol in an alcoholic beverage
  • Unit (housing)
    , a self-contained suite of rooms within a set of similar dwellings
  • Unit, course credit at a school or other educational institution
  • Multiple unit, self-propelled train carriage capable of coupling other units of the same type
  • Head unit
    , a component of a stereo system mounted inside of a vehicle
  • Unit (Cristian Fleming) (born 1974), electronic musician based in New York City
  • Unit (Norway), a government directorate

See also