Unit
['juːnɪt] or ['junɪt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a single undivided whole; 'an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another'.
(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 natural thing occurring in the composition of something else; 'units of nucleic acids'.
(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'.
手打:莎伦--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A single thing or person.
(n.) The least whole number; one.
(n.) A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A single thing, as a magnitude or number, regarded as an undivided whole.
布莱尔整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. One.
埃塞雷德編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Ace, item, part, individual
ANT:Total, aggregate, collection, sum, mass
錄入:勒达
解釋/意思:
n. one: a single thing or person: the least whole number: anything taken as one: any known determinate quantity by constant application of which any other quantity is measured.—adj. U′nital.—n. Unitā′rian one who asserts the unity of the Godhead as opposed to the Trinity and ascribes divinity to God the Father only.—adj. pertaining to Unitarians or their doctrine.—n. Unitā′rianism the doctrines or principles of a Unitarian.—adj. U′nitary pertaining to unity or to a unit: (biol.) monistic as opposed to dualistic: whole integral.—n. U′nitāte the remainder after dividing a number by any digit.—v.t. to obtain the unitate of.—n. Unitā′tion.
手打:劳里
例句/造句/用法:
- The atom, to be sure, can no longer be consider ed the smallest unit of matter, as the mass of a β particle is approximately one seventeen-hundredths that of an atom of hydrogen. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- It is proposed to work as a unit plant for successful operation at least six sets of molds, to keep the men busy and the machinery going. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Even the lightest engines made at that time were very heavy per unit of power, and rather crude in construction. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- For by the same rule these twenty men may be considered as a unit. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- They can't find their unit so I gave them a ride. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The rate at which a machine is able to accomplish a unit of work is called _power_, and the unit of power customarily used is the horse power. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- They were acting as a unit so far as such a thing was possible over such a vast field. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The machines of a class, or type, are not all located in a single group or unit. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- By this system each assembler, or operator, performs one operation only, and repeats this operation on every unit passing through the department. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- In practice, however, no such perfect conditions can obtain, hence the necessity of the provision for balancing in order to maintain the principle of independent control of each unit. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Second--To devise an electric lamp that would give about the same amount of light as a gas jet, which custom had proven to be a suitable and useful unit. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The sequel showed the value of Edison's cautious method in starting the station by operating only a single unit at first. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Like myself, you are born to be a ruler, not a unit in English civilization. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The result is that the three negatives, instead of each being a true unit, ready for combination with the others, is really only a basis for further work. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Since resistance plays so important a r?le in electricity, it becomes necessary to have a unit of resistance. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- But, she had scarcely thought more of separating them into units, than of separating the sea itself into its component drops. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- A more scientific statement, however, is that the cold vapor absorbs the heat units of the water, and taking them away with it, lowers the temperature of the water to the freezing point. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- But it is desirable at times to measure a current in units. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- There were some Italians with one of our units. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Some of the early races learned to designate units from tens and tens from hundreds by working their fingers in various ways. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The energy of the sun can be measured in heat units. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- It was of such rich character that, being cheaply mined by greatly improved and inexpensive methods, the market price of crude ore of like iron units fell from about $6. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Absence of fire risk accounts for the introduction of electric heating units of different kinds into the motion-picture film manufacturing industry, a rapidly growing province. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Instruments for measuring the strength of currents in units are called ammeters, and the common form makes use of a galvanometer. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Our history has traced a steady growth of the social and political units into which men have combined. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The result is that the heat units carried off by the water flowing around coil _d_ are the same heat units abstracted from the water in tank _a_, which water is thus reduced to congealation. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Some American ambulance units were to be sent down and this hospital would look after them and any other Americans on service in Italy. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- In this division, all the assembled units meet the assembly conveyor at the point where they are needed. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It is quite obvious that such a system would be commercially impracticable where small units, similar to gas jets, were employed. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- This re quired the intervention of specialists, expert rope-fasteners, who laid off a triangle by means of a rope divided into three parts, of three, four, and five units. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
手打:洛伊斯