Collocations withunit
These are words often used in combination withunit.
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additional unit
This price is meant to capture the external value of an additional unit of carbon.
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administrative unit
A 'tehsil' is an administrative unit smaller than the district.
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arbitrary unit
Each of these figures is merely an arbitrary unit; neither is sacrosanct.
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artillery unit
An artillery unit was added in 1874.
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autonomous unit
It is no use working in a watertight compartment as an autonomous unit.
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aviation unit
The aviation unit consisted of nine officers, 23 enlisted men, and seven aircraft.
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basic unit
The household was the basic unit of banner social structure.#!
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cardiac unit
Is chest radiography ever necessary for diagnosis in a cardiac unit?
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cavalry unit
What happens is that if a man is a motor mechanic, he finds himself cleaning out the stables in the only remaining cavalry unit, or something like that.
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census unit
In some cases, there can be more than one census unit for a single address.
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cohesive unit
They are a cohesive unit.
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combat unit
It is a medium-sized combat unit of overwhelming power.
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compact unit
What is meant by a more compact unit, economically, politically and so forth?
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condominium units
For the past 30 years it has been housed residential condominium units.
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containment unit
F2 is not, as described, an experimental medical containment unit, but simply an area in the prison hospital.
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cooling unit
The brine is cooled by an external cooling unit.
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dedicated unit
For each of the five challenge areas, there will be a dedicated unit to examine the problems and come up with solutions.
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discrete unit
That split is sensible, because the local community has long wanted to run its own railway, and it is a discrete unit.
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disposal unit
The camp has its own septic tank disposal unit.
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fighting unit
Probably they would not be put in a fighting unit.
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flash unit
Radio triggering requires a transmitter electrically connected to the camera to trigger a remote receiver connected to (or embedded into) a remote flash unit.
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follicular unit
Extracted hair are grouped into four to five hair called follicular unit grafts which are then transplanted onto bald area.
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front-line unit
It was not until late in the war that he was allowed to join a front-line unit.
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functional unit
Therefore, the functional unit can be varied.
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generating unit
This is very much the case with power stations of the 500 megawatt generating unit size.
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geographical unit
The police force's area is the smallest geographical unit for statistics on cautioning available centrally.
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guard unit
They were a permanently embodied guard unit, which was formed from the sons of military settlers.
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guerrilla unit
Huberto is leader of a guerrilla unit fighting a revolution.
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heating unit
Likewise, it will permit the room to get too cold before activating the heating unit.
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hidden unit
The weights associated with output connections are, however, re-estimated after a new hidden unit is recruited.
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housing unit
Older people do not want to be made to move to a poky sheltered housing unit with neighbours they did not choose.
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individual unit
An individual unit of randomization was used.
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infantry unit
It was not an infantry unit, or anything like that.
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integrated unit
Ossenbruggen (1994: 1) defines a system as an organised, integrated unit that serves a common purpose.
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intelligence unit
We need a central intelligence unit for that purpose.
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intermediate unit
An uncommercial unit is one too small to qualify as commercial, while an intermediate unit must be capable of providing full-time work for one man.
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linguistic unit
The syntactic force, on the other hand, strives to impose sentencehood upon the linguistic unit.
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marine unit
It is normally held by the senior warrant officer of an army or marine unit.
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metric unit
In a popular sense, metrication means the adoption of any form of metric unit for measurement.
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military unit
These premises were in occupation by a military unit.
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militia unit
As a militia unit, the regiment was manned by male citizens aged between 15 and 55.
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mobile unit
There is also a mobile unit offering a country-wide service.
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motor unit
An electrotherapy based on the natural sequence of motor unit action potentials: a laboratory trial.
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mounted unit
The average size of a mounted unit is 26 horses with 34 police officers and civilian staff.
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naval unit
They are producing some aircraft, a battalion each, and a naval unit each.
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nursery unit
There was a separation and a distinction between the admission arrangements for the nursery unit and those for both primary schools.
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oncology unit
This has not materialized and the 10 beds are dispersed within a larger acute medical and oncology unit.
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one-bedroom unit
A one-bedroom unit in a desirable location may still be in higher demand than a resort with less demand.
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organizational unit
A form is a flexible organizational unit, analogous to what might be described as a subprogram or a module in some traditional languages.
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paediatric unit
No representations have been received concerning staffing needs of the paediatric unit.
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police unit
It has reached such an extent that the council has its own police unit.
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processing unit
According to both alternative accounts, the current processing unit (probe trial) induces the automatic retrieval of the previous processing unit (prime trial).
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propulsion unit
I am not aware of any attempt to use hydrogen peroxide as a source of energy in any industrial propulsion unit.
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psychiatric unit
We included all admissions to a psychiatric hospital or a psychiatric unit in a general hospital.
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radar unit
The radar unit was placed directly on the surface of the coal and the returns recorded.
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reconnaissance unit
We could form more units of that type—the small reconnaissance unit.
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rental unit
The median cost of a rental unit was $1,054 per month, with the bulk of rental units priced between $1,000 and $1,500 per month.
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repeating unit
In this case, the repeating unit in the outer tube has no direct interactions along the one-start helix.
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rescue unit
The group is attacked by an assassin and eventually must accept that the firehouse is to be consolidated with a rescue unit.
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research unit
The evaluators were from a local university research unit and in both cases were appointed by the project.
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reserve unit
It could happen with a reserve unit.
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residential unit
Such a ' household ' cannot have functioned as a residential unit, the standard definition of the household.
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sampling unit
Thus, these small postcode sectors constituted the primary sampling unit.
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sealed unit
Another example of a rip-off is when the consumer has to buy a huge replacement part such as a sealed unit or computer-operated unit.
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segregation unit
He was in the segregation unit.
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self-contained unit
The problem of the word boundaries is not as great as for spoken languages, as each sign is a self-contained unit.
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separate unit
The facility is a detached and separate unit within the greater prison compound.
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single unit
The pericarp was weighed as a single unit.
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spatial unit
If seed predators have a relatively large foraging area, then the 1-m2 plots would not be an ecologically relevant spatial unit.
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special unit
Inmates are assigned to this special unit by request or because of medical necessity.
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stand-alone unit
If those 1,600 people cannot cope as a stand-alone unit, there is no hope for any air station or air base.
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structural unit
Instead of generating longer utterances as one structural unit, the children seem to have produced longer utterances by conjoining wellestablished shorter templates.
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subordinate unit
The subordinate unit is called the "dependent", and the superordinate unit the "head".
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surgical unit
In conclusion, we report a simple non-invasive device which can easily and safely be used at the bedside in any cardiac surgical unit.
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tactical unit
In any clearance in which it is considered that a breach of the peace might occur members of the police tactical unit are held in reserve.
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taxonomic unit
All data are expressed as numbers of encounters (hits) per taxonomic unit per transect.
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territorial unit
Anderson (1983:130-1) points out, however, that individual ownership sets up a disjunction between the territorial unit and the kinship unit.
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trauma unit
Managing variation is a challenging task for a trauma unit, but it can be done with process analysis tools, as shown here.
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unit cohesion
That said, the question authorizes the interviewee's informed opinion on the "unit cohesion issue" based on her experience as a "former company commander" in the military.
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unit of analysis
The unit of analysis was hospital discharge with some patients being hospitalized on multiple occasions per year.
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unit of measurement
By and large, a unit of measurement denoting a specific weight does not normally go with thanks.
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unit of volume
It produces a low level of energy per unit of volume of wood.
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