unit
entity regarded or used as an elementary structural or functional constituent to measure, analyse or describe another entity
mail item
document or object which is sent with a postal company
leitmotif
short, constantly recurring musical phrase, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation
chroneme
distinguishing feature of a sound system by vowel or consonant length
module
in ancient Roman and neoclassical architecture, the radius of the column at its base, used as a unit to determine the relative proportions of the various parts of the Classical orders
locution
language functional unit
presentation slide
single page of a presentation
unit of observation
distinct unit from which data have been or will be gathered. Together, the unit of observation and the level of analysis help define the population of a research enterprise
extent
variable-sized, contiguous area of storage that some filesystems use as a unit of disk space allocation
group of pictures
subsequence of video frames that a compression algorithm codes independently of other GOPs
Protocol data unit
unit of information transmitted between peer entities (at the same layer) of a computer network
economic unit
economics term; economically independent decision maker, such as a private household or a company
data cluster
contiguous, fixed-size block of sectors that some filesystems use as a unit of disk space allocation
unit cell
base of crystal structure
linguistic unit
any of a range of units of language, whether a word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, whole conversation or a story, morpheme, grapheme, phoneme and syllable
complementary currency
medium of exchange complementing national currencies
parcel
individual consignment of cargo for shipment
component
chemically-independent constituent of a thermodynamic system
memory cell
elementary data-storing circuit within an electronically addressed computer memory/storage device
quantum
minimum positive amount of any physical property involved in an interaction
maximum transmission unit
size of the largest network layer protocol data unit that can be communicated in a single network transaction
Made Beaver
unit of account used in the Hudson's Bay Company
object
programming element that groups data with relevant operations/behaviors
block
sequence of bytes or bits, having a nominal length (a block size)
widget
abstract product or unit of production in economics
individual seat
discrete seating location for one individual in a venue or vehicle
configuration item
the fundamental structural unit of a configuration management system
task
unit of executable work in computing
symbol
basic element of strings in a formal language
statistical unit
in statistics, anything that can be described and considered separately
bit cell
physical region of a data storage medium that holds a single bit of information
unit of analysis
major entity that is being analyzed in a study
chunk
fragment of data within certain file formats