basic unit
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbasicandunit
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basic
adjective
uk/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/us/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/
simple and not complicated, so able to provide the base or starting point from which something ...
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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 ofbasicandunitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The household was thebasicunitof banner social structure.#!
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This is thebasicunitof observation; on top of this derived notions can be defined.
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In this type of framework, thebasicunitof storage is whole words.
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The oscil() function is thebasicunitgenerator used by the instrument, an oscillator.
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Five phenological stages of the crop formed thebasicunitof time for the investigation.
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It is constructed systematically with a cross-type amplifier as abasicunit.
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The projections were prepared by the component method using abasicunitof 5 years.
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The problem also represents thebasicunitgoverning the behaviour of emulsions in technologically important flows.
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As previously mentioned, the household was thebasicunitof production, consumption and welfare.
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Thebasicunitis a block of 500 ha (500 x 1000 m).
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In alphabetic languages, thebasicunitof orthography is the grapheme.
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Classical timing units are replaced by, or rather conflated, with, thebasicunitthat represents syllable weight : the mora (m).
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Our approach focuses on formal systems, and thebasicunitof composition is an individual inference rule.
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Early on in the project, a decision was made to use the parish as thebasicunitof location.
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As thebasicunitof household registration and taxation, a male-headed household was to be the norm for society.
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Propositions were used as a measure of story length and as thebasicunitof meaning within a story.
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Within each part are chapters, twenty-four in all, whosebasicunitof organisation is the double-page spread.
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The use of language is thus highlighted as thebasicunitfor a complete understanding of the linguistic system.
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Performing both functions of production and reproduction, the ie eventually became thebasicunitof social organization.
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Feature-oriented programming is used to assemble objects; itsbasicunitof composition is a group of related methods.
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It is £2½ millionbasicunitcost.
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Under the scheme, thebasicunitis the individual.
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This means that thebasicunitthe collocational dictionary starts from is most often the noun in the case of verb-noun or adjective-noun collocations.
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