Unit may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

UNIT Unit may refer to: Arts and entertainment * UNIT, a fictional military organization in the science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' * Unit of action, a discrete piece of action (or beat) in a theatrical presentation Music * ''Unit'' (a ...

, a fictional military organization in the science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' * Unit of action, a discrete piece of action (or beat) in a theatrical presentation

Music

* ''Unit'' (album), 1997 album by the Australian band Regurgitator * The Units, a synthpunk band

Television

* '' The Unit'', an American television series * '' The Unit: Idol Rebooting Project'', South Korean reality TV survival show

Business

Stock keeping unit In inventory management, a stock keeping unit (abbreviated as SKU and pronounced or ) is the unit of measure in which the stocks of a material are managed. Or to put it another way; is a distinct type of item for sale, purchased, or tracked in ...

, a discrete inventory management construct *

Strategic business unit A strategic business unit (SBU) in business strategic management, is a profit center which focuses on product offering and market segment. SBUs typically have a discrete marketing plan, analysis of competition, and marketing campaign, even though ...

, a profit center which focuses on product offering and market segment *

Unit of account In economics, unit of account is one of the money functions. A unit of account is a standard numerical monetary unit of measurement of the market value of goods, services, and other transactions. Also known as a "measure" or "standard" of rela ...

, a monetary unit of measurement * Unit coin, a small coin or medallion (usually military), bearing an organization's insignia or emblem * Work unit, the name given to a place of employment in the People's Republic of China

Science and technology

Science and medicine

* Unit, a vessel or section of a

chemical plant A chemical plant is an industrial process plant that manufactures (or otherwise processes) chemicals, usually on a large scale. The general objective of a chemical plant is to create new material wealth via the chemical or biological transfor ...

* Blood unit, a measurement in blood transfusion * Enzyme unit, a measurement of active enzyme in a sample *

Equivalent (chemistry) An equivalent (symbol: officially equiv; unofficially but often Eq) is the amount of a substance that reacts with (or is ''equivalent'' to) an arbitrary amount (typically one mole) of another substance in a given chemical reaction. It is an arc ...

, a unit of measurement used in chemistry and biology *

Geological unit A stratigraphic unit is a volume of rock of identifiable origin and relative age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize ...

or rock unit, a volume of identifiable rock or ice *

International unit In pharmacology, the international unit (IU) is a unit of measurement for the effect, not mass of a substance; the variance is based on the biological activity or effect, for the purpose of easier comparison across similar ''forms'' of substance ...

, a unit of measurement for nutrients and drugs *

Unit of measurement A unit of measurement is a definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same kind of quantity. Any other quantity of that kind can be expressed as a mult ...

, a definite magnitude of a physical quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law ** International System of Units (SI), modern form of the metric system **

English units English units are the units of measurement used in England up to 1826 (when they were replaced by Imperial units), which evolved as a combination of the Anglo-Saxon and Roman systems of units. Various standards have applied to English units at ...

, historical units of measurement used in England up to 1824 ** Humorous units of measurement Some less serious or controversial units **

Unit of length A unit of length refers to any arbitrarily chosen and accepted reference standard for measurement of length. The most common units in modern use are the metric units, used in every country globally. In the United States the U.S. customary uni ...

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Astronomical unit The astronomical unit (symbol: au, or or AU) is a unit of length, roughly the distance from Earth to the Sun and approximately equal to or 8.3 light-minutes. The actual distance from Earth to the Sun varies by about 3% as Earth orbi ...

, a unit of length roughly between the Earth and the Sun **

Natural unit In physics, natural units are physical units of measurement in which only universal physical constants are used as defining constants, such that each of these constants acts as a coherent unit of a quantity. For example, the elementary charge ...

, a physical unit of measurement *

Unit type In the area of mathematical logic and computer science known as type theory, a unit type is a type that allows only one value (and thus can hold no information). The carrier (underlying set) associated with a unit type can be any singleton set. ...

, a type allowing only one value in type theory *

Unit of alcohol Units of alcohol are used in the United Kingdom (UK) as a measure to quantify the actual alcoholic content within a given volume of an alcoholic beverage, in order to provide guidance on total alcohol consumption. A number of other countries (in ...

, a measure of the volume of pure ethanol in an alcoholic beverage

Computing

Central processing unit A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, an ...

, the electronic circuitry within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program *

GNU Units GNU Units is a cross-platform computer program for conversion of units of quantities. It has a database of Units of measurement, measurement units, including List of strange units of measurement, esoteric and historical units. This for instance al ...

, a software program for unit conversion * Rack unit, a unit of measure most commonly used to define the size of certain computing equipment

Mathematics

Unit (ring theory) In algebra, a unit of a ring is an invertible element for the multiplication of the ring. That is, an element of a ring is a unit if there exists in such that vu = uv = 1, where is the multiplicative identity; the element is unique for th ...

, an element that is invertible with respect to ring multiplication * Unit,

identity element In mathematics, an identity element, or neutral element, of a binary operation operating on a set is an element of the set that leaves unchanged every element of the set when the operation is applied. This concept is used in algebraic structures s ...

* Unit, a

tuple In mathematics, a tuple is a finite ordered list (sequence) of elements. An -tuple is a sequence (or ordered list) of elements, where is a non-negative integer. There is only one 0-tuple, referred to as ''the empty tuple''. An -tuple is defi ...

of length 0; an empty tuple *

Statistical unit In statistics, a unit is one member of a set of entities being studied. It is the main source for the mathematical abstraction of a "random variable". Common examples of a unit would be a single person, animal, plant, manufactured item, or country ...

, a data point on which statistical analysis is performed * Unit angle, a full turn equal to an angle of 1 *

Unit circle In mathematics, a unit circle is a circle of unit radius—that is, a radius of 1. Frequently, especially in trigonometry, the unit circle is the circle of radius 1 centered at the origin (0, 0) in the Cartesian coordinate system in the Eucli ...

, a circle with a radius of length 1 * Unit cube, a cube with sides of length 1 * Unit fraction, a reciprocal of a positive integer * Unit imaginary number, square root of negative 1

(\sqrt)

* Unit impulse, an impulse of height 1 *

Unit interval In mathematics, the unit interval is the closed interval , that is, the set of all real numbers that are greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 1. It is often denoted ' (capital letter ). In addition to its role in real analys ...

, an interval of distance 1 * Unit matrix, a diagonal matrix such that all elements on the main diagonal are 1 and all the others are zero * Unit number, the number 1 *

Unit round-off Machine epsilon or machine precision is an upper bound on the relative approximation error due to rounding in floating point arithmetic. This value characterizes computer arithmetic in the field of numerical analysis, and by extension in the subjec ...

, an upper bound on the relative error due to rounding in floating point * Unit set, a singleton, a set with exactly 1 element *

Unit sphere In mathematics, a unit sphere is simply a sphere of radius one around a given center. More generally, it is the set of points of distance 1 from a fixed central point, where different norms can be used as general notions of "distance". A u ...

, a sphere with a radius of length 1 *

Unit square In mathematics, a unit square is a square whose sides have length . Often, ''the'' unit square refers specifically to the square in the Cartesian plane with corners at the four points ), , , and . Cartesian coordinates In a Cartesian coordina ...

, a square with sides of length 1 *

Unit vector In mathematics, a unit vector in a normed vector space is a vector (often a spatial vector) of length 1. A unit vector is often denoted by a lowercase letter with a circumflex, or "hat", as in \hat (pronounced "v-hat"). The term ''direction ve ...

, a vector with length equal to 1

Military

* Active service unit, the former Provisional Irish Republican Army cell *

Military unit Military organization or military organisation is the structuring of the armed forces of a State (polity), state so as to offer such military capability as a military policy, national defense policy may require. In some countries paramilitary ...

, an homogeneous military organization whose administrative and command functions are self-contained *

Sayeret Matkal General Staff Reconnaissance Unit (formerly Unit 269 or Unit 262), more commonly known as Sayeret Matkal ( he, סיירת מטכ״ל) is the special reconnaissance unit (''sayeret'') of Israel's General Staff (''matkal''). It is the prime special ...

(The Unit), the Israeli special forces unit

Other uses

Unit (Cristian Fleming) Unit is an electronic musician based in New York City. Unit began releasing electronic music officially at the age of 25, although he had musical involvement for many years prior, playing bass guitar at 17, and began working on electronic music at ...

(born 1974), electronic musician based in New York City * Unit (housing), a self-contained suite of rooms within a set of similar dwellings *

Unit (Norway) Unit, which labels itself as the Norwegian "directorate for ICT and joint services in higher education and research", is the within the Ministry of Education and Research which provides governance of and access to shared information and commun ...

, a government directorate * Unit,

course credit A credit is the recognition for having taken a course at school or university, used as measure if enough hours have been made for graduation. University credits United States Credit hours In a college or university in the United States, students ...

at a school or other educational institution *

Multiple unit A multiple-unit train or simply multiple unit (MU) is a self-propelled train composed of one or more carriages joined together, which when coupled to another multiple unit can be controlled by a single driver, with multiple-unit train con ...

, self-propelled train carriage capable of coupling other units of the same type