Unit in a sentence as a noun

- Smallest unit of code is the function.

Port the lab's unit tests to Arc, then ensure your Arc version passes those tests.

When it came time for their unit to be culled, these people would basically serve as fodder for the layoff.

But, also, they were rather presumptuous in telling me to send the unit back.

Suppose you want a unit fraction 1/n with decimals that cycle through the 4-digit sequence abcd.

That "joke from the 1980's" still has legs, and can enable things large-unit/multi-unit compilers cannot.

"Hachette failed to come to mutually agreeable terms with their largest retail partner by dollar and unit volume.

Note that I focus on the two bed option because that's the practical minimum for a family unit, or for someone who telecommutes from home.

Many of our students have never programmed with a text editor before our unit, and dropping them into the big boilerplate world of Java micro-management was not good for them or for the course.

Now, we're not talking about American legal policy on things like wrongful imprisonment by the LA Crash unit, idiotic "3-strikes your out" laws, or minimum sentencing laws.

Now lots of new book authors would love that deal because they know how to write books but they have no idea how to promote them into bookstores and Amazon's top lists etc. Unlike books though web apps don't pay out a revenue stream on per-unit sales.

This was due to the way the production line was set up, and people with experience in designing production lines will tell you how difficult it is to have everything happen with timings so precise that every single unit coming out of it is perfect 100% of the time.

"Eichenwalds conversations reveal that a management system known as stack rankinga program that forces every unit to declare a certain percentage of employees as top performers, good performers, average, and pooreffectively crippled Microsofts ability to innovate.

The $32 million fundraising goal might seem overly ambitious, but it's actually more realistic than it appears at first glance, because at $600+ per unit the campaign needs only around 50,000 buyers worldwide to be successful -- or a bit over 2% of Ubuntu's enthusiastic user base, which was estimated to be greater than 20 million in 2011.[1]PS.

Something that the Bitcoin community has been a bit slow to accept is the idea that "peer-to-peer exchange" may be occurring at the corporate level rather than at the individual level for most people--it's hard to imagine a world where that isn't true due to the points outlined in the "Comparison to the card networks" part of this article.

Unit definitions

noun

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"

noun

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"

noun

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"

noun

a single undivided whole; "an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another"

noun

a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else; "units of nucleic acids"

noun

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"

See also: whole