Department vs. Unit

Departmentnoun

A part, portion, or subdivision.

Departmentnoun

A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.

Departmentnoun

A subdivision of an organization.

Departmentnoun

One of the principal divisions of executive government

Departmentnoun

One of the divisions of instructions

Departmentnoun

A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes. In France, a department is smaller than a region

Departmentnoun

(historical) A military subdivision of a country

Departmentnoun

(obsolete) Act of departing; departure.

Departmentnoun

Act of departing; departure.

Departmentnoun

A part, portion, or subdivision.

Departmentnoun

A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.

Departmentnoun

Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instruction; as, the medical department; the department of physics.

Departmentnoun

A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.

Departmentnoun

A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.

Departmentnoun

a specialized division of a large organization;

Departmentnoun

the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)

Departmentnoun

a specialized sphere of knowledge;

Departmentnoun

a division of a large organization such as a government, university, or business, dealing with a specific area of activity

Departmentnoun

an administrative district in France and other countries

Departmentnoun

an area of special expertise or responsibility

Departmentnoun

a specified aspect or quality

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;