Unit
A single thing or person.
The least whole number; one.
A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings.
Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind.
A single thing, as a magnitude or number, regarded as an undivided whole.
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Unit Quotations
A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
George S. Patton
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash
The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.
Lester B. Pearson
A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
Arthur Conan Doyle
In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.
Omar N. Bradley
When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the idea unit.
Jerry Falwell
If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.
Jerzy Kosinski
You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.
Bob Geldof
Unit Translations
unit in Danish is enhed, ener
unit in Dutch is eenheid, unit
unit in Italian is meccanismo, elemento, semplice
unit in Portuguese is unidade
unit in Spanish is utensilo
unit in Swedish is enhet
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