Device vs. Unit
Devicenoun
Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
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(computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
Devicenoun
A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
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(Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
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(rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
Devicenoun
(heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily because as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge borne by members of the same house successively.
Devicenoun
(archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
Devicenoun
(legal) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
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(printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
Devicenoun
(obsolete) A spectacle or show.
Devicenoun
(obsolete) Opinion; decision.
Devicenoun
That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
Devicenoun
Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
Devicenoun
An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance.
Devicenoun
Anything fancifully conceived.
Devicenoun
A spectacle or show.
Devicenoun
Opinion; decision.
Devicenoun
any artifactual object designed to perform an action or process, with or without an operator in attendance.
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an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose;
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something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect
Devicenoun
any clever (deceptive) maneuver;
Devicenoun
any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery)
Devicenoun
an emblematic design (especially in heraldry);
Devicenoun
a thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment
Devicenoun
a bomb or other explosive weapon
Devicenoun
a plan, method, or trick with a particular aim
Devicenoun
a form of words intended to produce a particular effect in speech or a literary work
Devicenoun
a drawing or design
Devicenoun
an emblematic or heraldic design
Devicenoun
the design or look of something
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;
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an organization regarded as part of a larger social group;
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a single undivided whole;
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a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else;
Unitnoun
an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity;
