Apartment vs. Unit

Apartmentnoun

A complete domicile occupying only part of a building.

Apartmentnoun

(archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.

Apartmentnoun

(obsolete) A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment

Apartmentnoun

A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use a proxy.

Apartmentnoun

A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions.

Apartmentnoun

A set or suite of rooms.

Apartmentnoun

A compartment.

Apartmentnoun

A room or suite of rooms in a building comprising a dwelling unit separate from others in the building, and typically having its own separate bath, sanitary, and kitchen facilities. Such apartments are in most cases rented from the owner by those dwelling in them.

Apartmentnoun

a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

Apartmentnoun

a flat, typically one that is well appointed or used for holidays

Apartmentnoun

a suite of rooms forming one residence; a flat

Apartmentnoun

a block of apartments

Apartmentnoun

a set of private rooms in a very large house

Apartment

An apartment (American English), or flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building, generally on a single story. There are many names for these overall buildings, see below.

Unitnoun

(mathematics) Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.

Unitnoun

(sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.

Unitnoun

The number one.

Unitnoun

An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.

Unitnoun

A member of a military organization.

Unitnoun

Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organization.

Unitnoun

An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.

Unitnoun

A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or detailed. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.

Unitnoun

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.

Unitnoun

(algebra) The identity element, neutral element.

Unitnoun

(algebra) An element having an inverse, an invertible element; an associate of the unity.

Unitnoun

(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.

Unitnoun

(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.

Unitnoun

(commerce) An item which may be sold singly.

Unitnoun

(UK) A unit of alcohol.

Unitnoun

One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).

Unitnoun

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.

Unitnoun

(historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.

Unitnoun

A work unit.

Unitnoun

A physically large person.

Unitadjective

For each unit.

Unitadjective

(mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.

Unitnoun

A single thing or person.

Unitnoun

The least whole number; one.

Unitnoun

A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings.

Unitnoun

Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind.

Unitnoun

A single thing, as a magnitude or number, regarded as an undivided whole.

Unitnoun

any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange;

Unitnoun

an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole;

Unitnoun

an organization regarded as part of a larger social group;

Unitnoun

a single undivided whole;

Unitnoun

a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else;

Unitnoun

an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity;