1. a single thing or person regarded as separate and complete
2. a fixed quantity used as a standard of measurement
3. a section or part of a course of study or textbook
Usage: education

Examples

• Each unit in the apartment complex has two bedrooms.
• The meter is the basic unit of length in the metric system.
• We’re studying unit 5 in our math textbook this week.
• The army unit was deployed to the border.
• This air conditioning unit needs to be replaced.
• The storage unit contains all of our old furniture.
• Each unit of the product costs five dollars.
• The hospital’s intensive care unit has twenty beds.