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32-690: [REDACTED] Look up unit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Unit may refer to: General measurement [ edit ] Unit of measurement , 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 , historical units of measurement used in England up to 1824 Unit of length Science and technology [ edit ] Physical sciences [ edit ] Natural unit ,

64-434: A certain amount of units, which make up their own currency for making telephone calls, that may not necessarily correspond to the monetary cost of the actual telephone card. Military [ edit ] Active service unit , the former Provisional Irish Republican Army cell Military unit , an homogeneous military organization whose administrative and command functions are self-contained Sayeret Matkal (The Unit),

96-434: A certain amount of units, which make up their own currency for making telephone calls, that may not necessarily correspond to the monetary cost of the actual telephone card. Military [ edit ] Active service unit , the former Provisional Irish Republican Army cell Military unit , an homogeneous military organization whose administrative and command functions are self-contained Sayeret Matkal (The Unit),

128-470: A conformability error message and display a reduced form of each measurement. The examples that follow show results from GNU units version 2.10. The underscore ('_') is used to indicate the result of the last successful unit conversion. One form of the Darcy–Weisbach equation for fluid flow is where Δ P is the pressure drop, ρ is the mass density, f is the (dimensionless) friction factor, L

160-413: A diagonal matrix such that all elements on the main diagonal are 1 and all the others are zero Unit round-off , 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 , a sphere with a radius of length 1 Unit square , a square with sides of length 1 Unit vector , a vector with length equal to 1 Unit type ,

192-413: A diagonal matrix such that all elements on the main diagonal are 1 and all the others are zero Unit round-off , 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 , a sphere with a radius of length 1 Unit square , a square with sides of length 1 Unit vector , a vector with length equal to 1 Unit type ,

224-490: A discrete inventory management construct Strategic business unit , a profit center which focuses on product offering and market segment Unit of account , 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 Telephone card unit. When bought contains

256-437: A discrete inventory management construct Strategic business unit , a profit center which focuses on product offering and market segment Unit of account , 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 Telephone card unit. When bought contains

288-470: A government directorate See also [ edit ] Air unit (disambiguation) Piece (disambiguation) Subunit (disambiguation) UNITA , the second-largest political party in Angola Unite (disambiguation) Unity (disambiguation) United (disambiguation) All pages with titles beginning with Unit All pages with titles containing Unit Topics referred to by

320-409: A government directorate See also [ edit ] Air unit (disambiguation) Piece (disambiguation) Subunit (disambiguation) UNITA , the second-largest political party in Angola Unite (disambiguation) Unity (disambiguation) United (disambiguation) All pages with titles beginning with Unit All pages with titles containing Unit Topics referred to by

352-569: A measure of the volume of pure ethanol in an alcoholic beverage Unit (housing) , a self-contained suite of rooms within a set of similar dwellings Unit, course credit at a school or other educational institution Multiple unit , self-propelled train carriage capable of coupling other units of the same type Head unit , a component of a stereo system mounted inside of a vehicle Unit (Cristian Fleming) (born 1974), electronic musician based in New York City Unit (Norway) ,

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384-500: A measure of the volume of pure ethanol in an alcoholic beverage Unit (housing) , a self-contained suite of rooms within a set of similar dwellings Unit, course credit at a school or other educational institution Multiple unit , self-propelled train carriage capable of coupling other units of the same type Head unit , a component of a stereo system mounted inside of a vehicle Unit (Cristian Fleming) (born 1974), electronic musician based in New York City Unit (Norway) ,

416-412: A measurement of active enzyme in a sample International unit , a unit of measurement for nutrients and drugs Mathematics [ edit ] Unit number, the number 1 Unit, identity element Unit (ring theory) , an element that is invertible with respect to ring multiplication Unit, a tuple of length 0; an empty tuple Statistical unit , a data point on which statistical analysis

448-545: A physical unit of measurement Geological unit or rock unit, a volume of identifiable rock or ice Astronomical unit , a unit of length roughly between the Earth and the Sun Chemistry and medicine [ edit ] Equivalent (chemistry) , a unit of measurement used in chemistry and biology Unit, a vessel or section of a chemical plant Blood unit , a measurement in blood transfusion Enzyme unit ,

480-504: A type allowing only one value in type theory Computing [ edit ] Central processing unit , the electronic circuitry within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program GNU Units , a software program for unit conversion Rack unit , a unit of measure most commonly used to define the size of certain computing equipment Unit testing , a method by which individual units of source code are tested Business [ edit ] Stock keeping unit ,

512-504: A type allowing only one value in type theory Computing [ edit ] Central processing unit , the electronic circuitry within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program GNU Units , a software program for unit conversion Rack unit , a unit of measure most commonly used to define the size of certain computing equipment Unit testing , a method by which individual units of source code are tested Business [ edit ] Stock keeping unit ,

544-422: A unit of measurement used in chemistry and biology Unit, a vessel or section of a chemical plant Blood unit , a measurement in blood transfusion Enzyme unit , a measurement of active enzyme in a sample International unit , a unit of measurement for nutrients and drugs Mathematics [ edit ] Unit number, the number 1 Unit, identity element Unit (ring theory) , an element that

576-399: Is a good reference in itself, as it is extensively commented and cites numerous sources. UDUNITS is a similar utility program, except that it has an additional programming library interface and date conversion abilities. UDUNITS is considered the de facto program and library for variable unit conversion for netCDF files. GNU Units version 2.19 was released on 31 May 2019, to reflect

608-467: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages unit [REDACTED] Look up unit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Unit may refer to: General measurement [ edit ] Unit of measurement , a definite magnitude of a physical quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law International System of Units (SI), modern form of

640-578: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages GNU Units GNU Units was written by Adrian Mariano as an implementation of the units utility included with the Unix operating system. It was originally available under a permissive license. The GNU variant is distributed under the GPL although the FreeBSD project maintains a free fork of units from before

672-633: Is invertible with respect to ring multiplication Unit, a tuple of length 0; an empty tuple Statistical unit , a data point on which statistical analysis is performed Unit angle , a full turn equal to an angle of 1 Unit circle , 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 ( − 1 ) {\displaystyle ({\sqrt {-1}})} Unit impulse , an impulse of height 1 Unit interval , an interval of distance 1 Unit matrix ,

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704-470: Is performed Unit angle , a full turn equal to an angle of 1 Unit circle , 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 ( − 1 ) {\displaystyle ({\sqrt {-1}})} Unit impulse , an impulse of height 1 Unit interval , an interval of distance 1 Unit matrix ,

736-484: The 2019 revision of the SI ; Version 2.14 released on 8 March 2017 fixed several minor bugs and improved support for building on Windows. Version 2.10, released on 26 March 2014, added support for rational exponents greater than one, and added the ability to save an interactive session in a file to provide a record of the conversions performed. Beginning with version 2.10, a 32-bit Windows binary distribution has been available on

768-727: The Israeli special forces unit Arts and entertainment [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] Unit (album) , 1997 album by the Australian band Regurgitator The Units , a synthpunk band Television [ edit ] The Unit , an American television series The Unit: Idol Rebooting Project , South Korean reality TV survival show Other uses [ edit ] Unit of alcohol ,

800-613: The Israeli special forces unit Arts and entertainment [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] Unit (album) , 1997 album by the Australian band Regurgitator The Units , a synthpunk band Television [ edit ] The Unit , an American television series The Unit: Idol Rebooting Project , South Korean reality TV survival show Other uses [ edit ] Unit of alcohol ,

832-510: The license change. The original units program has been a standard part of Unix since the early Bell Laboratories versions. Source code for a version very similar to the original is available from the Heirloom Project . GNU units includes several extensions to the original version, including Units definitions, including nonlinear conversions and unit lists, are user extensible. The plain text database definitions.units

864-481: The metric system English units , historical units of measurement used in England up to 1824 Unit of length Science and technology [ edit ] Physical sciences [ edit ] Natural unit , a physical unit of measurement Geological unit or rock unit, a volume of identifiable rock or ice Astronomical unit , a unit of length roughly between the Earth and the Sun Chemistry and medicine [ edit ] Equivalent (chemistry) ,

896-565: The project Web page (a 32-bit Windows port of version 1.87 has been available since 2008 as part of the GnuWin32 project). Version 2.02, released on 11 July 2013, added hexadecimal floating-point output and two other options to simplify changing the output format. Version 2.0, released on 2 July 2012, added the ability to convert to sums of units, such as hours and minutes or feet and inches. In addition, this release added support for UTF-8 encoding. Provision for locale-specific unit definitions

928-439: The result of the conversion in two lines. Usually, the first line (multiplication) is the desired result; the second line is the same conversion expressed as a division. Units can also function as a general-purpose scientific calculator; it includes several built-in mathematical functions such as sin , cos , atan , ln , exp , etc. Attempting to convert types of measurements that are incompatible will cause units to print

960-405: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Unit . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unit&oldid=1258778087 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

992-405: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Unit . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unit&oldid=1258778087 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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1024-490: Was added. The syntax for defining non-linear units was changed, and added optional domain and range specifications. The names of the standard and personal units data files were changed, and the currency definitions were placed in a separate data file; a Python script for updating the currency definitions was added. The version history is covered in detail in the NEWS file included with the source distribution. Units will output

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