different between unit vs slice
unit
English
Etymology
Formerly unite, a later form of unity; see unity.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ju?.n?t/
- Rhymes: -u?n?t
Noun
unit (plural units)
- (mathematics) Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one. [from 16th c.]
- 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface:
- Number, we define, to be, a certayne Mathematicall S?me, of Vnits. [Note the worde, Vnit, to expresse the Greke Monas, & not Vnitie: as we haue all, commonly, till now, vsed.]
- 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface:
- (sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.
- The number one.
- Clipping of international unit.
- An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
- (military, informal) A member of a military organization.
- (US, military) Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organization.
- (US, military) An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
- (US, military) A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or detailed. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.
- (US, military) With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units.
- (algebra) The identity element, neutral element.
- (algebra) An element having an inverse, an invertible element; an associate of the unity.
- Hypernym: regular element
- (category theory) In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of the left adjoint functor to the composition of the right adjoint functor with the left adjoint functor.
- (geology) A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it.
- (commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
- (Britain) A unit of alcohol.
- (Britain, electricity) One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
- (US, Australia, New Zealand) a measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household; an apartment where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storied buildings or a group of dwellings is in one or more single storey buildings, usually arranged around a driveway.
- (historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
- A work unit.
- (Britain, Australia, slang) A physically large person.
- 2018, 11 December, BBC News, Aylesbury goalkeeper, 14, dies after match injury
- Luca's father, Americo Campanaro, said: "I feel like my heart has been ripped out."
Mr Campanaro added: "He was a big lad, a big unit, that's why he was a goalkeeper, with a big heart to match. A gentle giant."
- Luca's father, Americo Campanaro, said: "I feel like my heart has been ripped out."
- 2018, 11 December, BBC News, Aylesbury goalkeeper, 14, dies after match injury
Synonyms
- (identity element): identity element, unity, unit element
Hyponyms
- (chip): arithmetic logic unit
Translations
Adjective
unit (not comparable)
- For each unit.
- We have to keep our unit costs down if we want to make a profit.
- (mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.
- 1990, William W. S. Wei, Time Series Analysis, ?ISBN, page 9:
- Consider the following time sequence
- ,
- where is a random variable with a zero mean and a unit variance and is a random variable with a uniform distribution on the interval independent of .
- Consider the following time sequence
- 1990, William W. S. Wei, Time Series Analysis, ?ISBN, page 9:
Translations
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- unit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- unit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- unit at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- uint
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /u?nit/
- Rhymes: -it
Adjective
unit (feminine unida, masculine plural units, feminine plural unides)
- united
Derived terms
- Emirats Àrabs Units
- Estats Units
- Estats Units d'Amèrica
- Regne Unit
Verb
unit m (feminine unida, masculine plural units, feminine plural unides)
- past participle of unir
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /y.ni/
Verb
unit
- third-person singular present indicative of unir
- third-person singular past historic of unir
Anagrams
- nuit
Indonesian
Etymology
From English unit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??n?t?]
- Hyphenation: unit
Noun
unit (first-person possessive unitku, second-person possessive unitmu, third-person possessive unitnya)
- unit:
- (mathematics) oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.
- Synonym: satuan
- (sciences) a standard measure of a quantity.
- (mathematics) oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.
Classifier
unit
- Classifier for singularity.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “unit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Verb
?nit
- third-person singular present active indicative of ?ni?
Occitan
Pronunciation
Verb
unit
- past participle of unir
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [u?nit]
Participle
unit
- past participle of uni
Declension
Welsh
Alternative forms
- unet (colloquial)
- unset (colloquial)
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /???n?t/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /?i?n?t/, /??n?t/
Verb
unit
- (literary) second-person singular imperfect/conditional of uno
Mutation
unit From the web:
- what unites us
- what units are used to measure mass
- what unit is force measured in
- what unit is mass measured in
- what units are used to measure mass and weight
- what unit is energy measured in
- what unit is work measured in
- what unit is volume measured in
slice
English
Etymology
From Middle English slice, esclice, from Old French esclice, esclis (“a piece split off”), deverbal of esclicer, esclicier (“to splinter, split up”), from Frankish *slitjan (“to split up”), from Proto-Germanic *slitjan?, from Proto-Germanic *sl?tan? (“to split, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip”), Old High German sl?zan (“to tear”), Old English sl?tan (“to split up”). More at slite, slit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sla?s/
- Rhymes: -a?s
Noun
slice (plural slices)
- That which is thin and broad.
- A thin, broad piece cut off.
- a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread
- (colloquial) An amount of anything.
- A piece of pizza.
- 2010, Andrea Renzoni, ?Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit! (page 22)
- For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke.
- 2010, Andrea Renzoni, ?Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit! (page 22)
- (Britain) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
- I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
- A broad, thin piece of plaster.
- A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
- A salver, platter, or tray.
- A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
- One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
- (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
- (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
- (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
- (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
- (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
- (programming) A contiguous portion of an array.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
slice (third-person singular simple present slices, present participle slicing, simple past and past participle sliced)
- (transitive) To cut into slices.
- (transitive) To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
- (transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
- (transitive, badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
- (transitive, golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
- (transitive, rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
- (transitive, tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
slice (not comparable)
- (mathematics) Having the properties of a slice knot.
Further reading
- slice on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
- -sicle, Celis, ILECs, Leics, Sicel, ceils, ciels, clies, sicle
French
Pronunciation
Verb
slice
- first-person singular present indicative of slicer
- third-person singular present indicative of slicer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of slicer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of slicer
- second-person singular imperative of slicer
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *sleggio, from *sleg, from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”). See also Ancient Greek ?????? (lakíz?, “to tear apart”).
Noun
slice m (nominative plural slici)
- shell
Inflection
Derived terms
- slicén
Descendants
- Irish: slige
- Manx: shlig
- Scottish Gaelic: slige
References
slice From the web:
- what slicer to use with ender 3
- what sliced cheese is the healthiest
- what alice forgot
- what slice of life means
- what slicer does creality use
- what alice forgot movie
- what slicer to use with ender 5
- what slicer comes with ender 3
you may also like
- unit vs slice
- damage vs mutilation
- authorised vs accomplished
- kindhearted vs gracious
- besmeared vs grimy
- stripe vs thong
- belt vs surcingle
- herald vs forewarning
- size vs duration
- unethical vs vile
- bolt vs hustle
- increment vs plus
- insensate vs deadened
- restrain vs regulate
- group vs cabal
- pomp vs pageant
- disinterested vs deliberate
- hole vs vacuum
- stateliness vs nobility
- corrugation vs rift