Definition of t-unit in English English dictionary
- API unit
- A unit of radioactivity used for measuring natural gamma rays in the ground. The radioactivity of a typical shale is 100 API units
- B-unit
- a locomotive with an engine, generator and motors, but without control mechanisms
- British thermal unit
- The quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at a particular temperature (there are several different precise definitions) and a pressure of one atmosphere
- Financial Intelligence Unit
- A government agency found in many countries, responsible for investigating and preventing criminal manipulation of finance systems
- Friedman unit
- A period of six months
- Heaviside unit function
- The function whose value is zero if its independent variable is negative, and one otherwise
- K-9 unit
- A police dog or a police dog and its handler
- Planck unit
- Any one of several natural units in a system originally proposed by Max Planck based on universal constants. Symbols for Planck units are the symbol for the physical quantity with a subscript P
- USP unit
- A unit of potency of drugs, used in the United States Pharmacopeia
- angstrom unit
- angstrom (unit of length)
- application protocol data unit
- A packet of data exchanged between two application programs across a network
- arithmetic logic unit
- That part of a CPU that does calculations and logical operations
- astronomical unit
- The mean distance from the Earth to the Sun (the semi-major axis of Earth's orbit), approximately 149,600,000 kilometres (symbol AU), used to measure distances in the solar system
- atomic mass unit
- a unit of mass equal to 1/12 the mass of an atom of the 12C isotope of carbon
- bargaining unit
- A group of employees legally represented by a labor union for the purpose of negotiating terms and conditions of employment with an employer
- base unit
- The main unit of a computer or hi-fi system
When upgrading her computer she bought a new base unit but kept the screen, keyboard and mouse.
- base unit
- A unit of measurement on which others are based
The SI unit of velocity is metres per second, derived from the base units of time and distance.
- central processing unit
- The part of a computer that fetches, decodes and executes instructions; attached directly to the memory. Abbreviated: CPU
- customary unit
- any unit of measurement that is currently used in the United States
- derived unit
- Any unit derived from one of the seven base units of length (meter), mass (kilogram), time (second), electric current (ampere), thermodynamic temperature (kelvin), amount of substance (mole) and luminous intensity (candela)
- detoxification unit
- A department in a hospital or a rehab used for detoxification of new patients
- electromagnetic unit
- Any of the various units to measure electricity and magnetism in the CGS (now replaced by SI) system of units; abbreviated emu or EMU
- excavation unit
- A pit, trench, shovel test hole, (etc.) or other result of scientific excavation
An excavation unit need not be rectangular, if precise measurements are made to assure good provenience.
- field unit
- A military unit destined to be fielded in tactical operations
- first unit
- The team that shoots footage which is of primary importance for the final cut of the motion picture, including all scenes involving actors, or at least stars of the motion picture
- floating-point unit
- A microprocessor that performs floating-point arithmetic. In older models of computer the FPU was not integrated into the central processing unit, but rather as a coprocessor if included at all
- flux unit
- The (otherwise unnamed) unit of density of electromagnetic radiation from a radio star, equal to 10-26 watts per square meter per hertz
- high dependency unit
- An area for patients who require more intensive observation, treatment and nursing care than would be usually provided on a general ward. A standard of care between the general ward and full intensive care
- hypothetical taxonomic unit
- An internal node in phylogenetic analysis; an inferred ancestral organism
- international unit
- A particular, minute unit of mass, defined differently for different substances, but so that varying substances of the same general type have the property that one international unit of the one has the same effect on the human body as one international unit of the other
- lexical unit
- A lexical item
- monetary unit
- A standard unit of a currency, of which the value of coins or notes are multiples
- morphic unit
- A unit of form, organization or arrangement of any size
- motor unit
- A neuron with its associated muscle fibres
- mountain unit
- A type of military unit armed, equipped and trained to fight in rugged, mountainous terrain
- moving unit
- A unit of measurement in motion, such as moving crowd,or moving parts of a machine
- multiple unit
- a train consisting of one or more self-propelled cars capable of coupling with other units of the same or similar type and still being controlled from one cab
- natural unit
- Any of a group of related physical units defined in terms of natural constants
- operational taxonomic unit
- A terminal node in phylogenetic analysis; an organism
- penalty unit
- an amount, used as a basis of a penalty fine, which can be adjusted by the government without the need to pass new legislation
- pilosebaceous unit
- The structure consisting of hair, hair follicle, erector pili muscle and sebaceous gland
- propwash deflection unit
- A device that is placed over or behind the propeller of a boat to deflect the vessel's propwash downward. The result is a very effective form of agitation dredging. PDUs are primarily used by salvors to remove mud or sand from shallow water shipwrecks
- quantum unit of spin
- A constant used as a unit of measurement for particle spin and equal to Planck's constant divided by 2π
- repeat unit
- a specific arrangement of atoms that repeats within a macromolecule
- repeating unit
- the basic structural unit of a polymer; the monomer unit which has been polymerized
- rhythmic unit
- A durational pattern which occupies a period of time equal to a pulse or pulses on an underlying metric level
- second unit
- A separate team that shoots footage that is of secondary importance for the final cut of the motion picture, as opposed to first unit
- social unit
- An entity which is part of, and participates in, a larger social group or society
- unit
- An organized group comprising people and/or equipment
He was a member of a special police unit.
- unit
- An item which may be sold singly
We shipped nearly twice as many units this month as last month.
- unit
- A standard measure of a quantity
The centimetre is a unit of length.
- unit
- A member of a military organization
The fifth tank brigade moved in with 20 units. (i.e., 20 tanks).
- unit
- A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or used. In this meaning, also called unit of issue
- unit
- A self-contained military organization; usually a battalion, regiment, or naval ship
- unit
- With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units
- unit
- Having a size or magnitude of one
All solutions lie within the unit disc centered at the origin.
- unit
- One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter)
- unit
- For each unit
We have to keep our unit costs down if we want to make a profit.
- unit
- Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organizationJoint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006)
- unit
- An element of a ring having a multiplicative inverse. (Formerly just the identity element 1R of a ring.)
- unit
- An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force
- unit aircraft
- Such an aircraft
- unit aircraft
- Those aircraft provided by an aircraft unit for the performance of a flying mission
- unit cell
- In a crystal, the smallest repeating structure (parallelepiped) of atoms from which the structure of the complete crystal can be inferred
- unit cells
- plural form of unit cell
- unit circle
- The circle of radius 1 with centre at the origin, used in defining trigonometric functions
- unit circle
- A circle of radius 1
- unit cost
- The cost to acquire a unit of a good or service for a specific quantity that is purchased
- unit costs
- plural form of unit cost
- unit designation lists
- plural form of unit designation list
- unit fraction
- A fraction whose numerator is 1 and whose denominator is a positive integer; for example, \frac12 or 1/35
- unit fractions
- plural form of unit fraction
- unit interval
- the interval , that is the set of all real numbers x such that zero is less than or equal to x and x is less than or equal to one
- unit intervals
- plural form of unit interval
- unit matrices
- plural form of unit matrix
- unit matrix
- An identity matrix
- unit matrixes
- plural form of unit matrix
- unit of measure
- any standardized, reproducible unit that can be used to measure any physical property
- unit of measurement
- any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange; a unit of measure
- unit operation
- Any simple step in a multi-step chemical engineering process; examples include distillation, evaporation, mixing, filtration, crystallization etc
- unit price
- The price of a standard amount of a good, as of weight or volume
- unit test
- An individual test in unit testing
- unit testing
- A software testing methodology in which individual tests (unit tests) are developed for each small part of a program
- unit vector
- A vector with length 1
- unit vectors
- plural form of unit vector
- visual display unit
- A computer display, consisting of a screen (or monitor) and keyboard connected to a computer
- wall unit
- A set of furniture pieces (bookshelves, cabinet etc.) standing against the wall of a room
- unit bank
- (Denizcilik) A system of banking in which the government restricts or does not permit a bank to open branch offices. Unit banking systems encourage either small, independent banks or banks that are theoretically independent but are in fact owned by a bank holding company
- unit bank
- (Denizcilik) A local bank operating just as a single branch
- unit per capita loading
- Population equivalent or unit per capita loading, (PE), in waste-water treatment is the number expressing the ratio of the sum of the pollution load produced during 24 hours by industrial facilities and services to the individual pollution load in household sewage produced by one person in the same time
- unit
- {n} the number one
- air handling unit
- Equipment that includes a fan or blower, heating and/or cooling coils, regulator controls, condensate drain pans, and air filters
- system unit
- (Bilgisayar) A system unit, also known as a base unit, is the main body of a desktop computer, typically consisting of a metal or (rarely) plastic enclosure containing the motherboard, power supply, cooling fans, internal disk drives, and the memory modules and expansion cards that are plugged into the motherboard, such as video and network cards