WordNet is a semantic lexicon for the English language. It was created and is being maintained at the Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George A. Miller.
The purpose is twofold: to produce a combination of dictionary and thesaurus that is more intuitively usable, and to support automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence applications.
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building block, social unit, unit, unit of measurement, whole, whole thing,
1. NOUN. (unit)
an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity
"how big is that part compared to the whole?"
"the team is a unit"
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2. NOUN. (unit)
a single undivided whole
"an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another"
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one,
3. NOUN. (unit)
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"
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klavern, administrative unit, administrative body, company, family, household, house, home, menage, general delivery, poste restante, instrumentality, intensive care unit, ICU, member, military unit, military force, military group, force, task force, team, squad, den, gang, crew, work party, combination, crew, troop, scout troop, scout group, outfit, fifth column, Trojan horse, political unit, side, working group, working party,
4. NOUN. (unit)
a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else
"units of nucleic acids"
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5. NOUN. (unit)
any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
"the dollar is the United States unit of currency"
"a unit of wheat is a bushel"
"change per unit volume"
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measuring unit, measuring block, denier, diopter, Karat, carat, absorption unit, acceleration unit, angular unit, area unit, square measure, volume unit, capacity unit, capacity measure, cubage unit, cubic measure, cubic content unit, displacement unit, cubature unit, computer memory unit, electromagnetic unit, emu, explosive unit, force unit, metric unit, metric, miles per gallon, monetary unit, megaflop, MFLOP, million floating point operations per second, teraflop, trillion floating point operations per second, MIPS, million instructions per second, pain unit, pressure unit, printing unit, sound unit, telephone unit, temperature unit, weight unit, weight, mass unit, unit of viscosity, work unit, heat unit, energy unit, langley, Brinell number, point, bit, megabit, electrostatic unit,
