functional unit
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffunctionalandunit
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functional
adjective
uk/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən.əl/us/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən.əl/
designed to be practical and useful rather ...
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unit
noun
uk/ˈjuː.nɪt/us/ˈjuː.nɪt/
a single thing or a separate part of ...
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(Definition offunctionalandunitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Therefore, thefunctionalunitcan be varied.
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A schema is afunctionalunit, based on the action-perception cycle.
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It requires overnight hospitalization of the patient in a specializedfunctionalunit(sleep laboratory).
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These three inner organs are involved in protein catabolism and therefore belong to afunctionalunit.
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The unique connectivity can also be a mode of classifying an area as afunctionalunit.
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Note that a schema, thus understood, is afunctionalunitand may be anatomically distributed throughout different structural brain regions.
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Functionalunitof the low density lipoprotein receptor of fibroblasts: a 100 000-dalton structure with multiple binding sites.
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This assumption weakens the position of the reflex arc as the basicfunctionalunitof nervous activities.
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The minimum information required for case retrieval is the design problem statement, which is obtained from thefunctionalunitof the building entity.
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In the force feedback mouse example, we need to insert afunctionalunitthat generates a force between the reference surface and the user's hand.
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His analysis of the brain structures underlying mental functions into functional units, and his discussion of the central role of eachfunctionalunitare consistent with his psychological theory.
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For, as soon as infancy has passed, it is much more often the parents who form afunctionalunitwithin the family than it is the totality of the children.
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There is not the slightest reason to believe that every neuron in the human brain (or neural column or any otherfunctionalunit) is connected to every other neuron.
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Although the representation remains constant, its form changes to one in which eachfunctionalunitaccomplishes only a single function and operates on only the flows necessary for that function.
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This layer of abstraction allows other entities in the system to make more effective use of these capabilities, by reasoning and interacting with the group as a singlefunctionalunit.
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Computation happens as a side effect of data transports: writing data into a "triggering port" of afunctionalunittriggers thefunctionalunitto start a computation.
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Nowadays, we treat a hospital as afunctionalunitwith requirements to be met within a building for which a target cost can be set.
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If thread one issues three instructions, onefunctionalunitremains unused.
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However, the more original definition of subcellularfunctionalunitin general still coexists.
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Myofibrils are composed of repeating protein structures or sarcomeres, the basicfunctionalunitof skeletal muscle.
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They are states or conditions of a device or equipment or of afunctionalunit.
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It has been suggested that these two modules form a single structural andfunctionalunit.
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The brain is the majorfunctionalunitof the central nervous system.
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Active site cysteine residues are thefunctionalunitin cysteine protease catalytic triads.
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