Lesson vs. Unit — What's the Difference?

A lesson or class is a structured period of time where learning is intended to occur. It involves one or more students (also called pupils or learners in some circumstances) being taught by a teacher or instructor.

An individual, group, structure, or other entity regarded as an elementary structural or functional constituent of a whole.

Something to be learned

A group regarded as a distinct entity within a larger group.

A period of instruction; a class.

A mechanical part or module.

An assignment or exercise in which something is to be learned.

An entire apparatus or the equipment that performs a specific function.

The act or an instance of instructing; teaching.

A precisely specified quantity in terms of which the magnitudes of other quantities of the same kind can be stated.

An experience, example, or observation that imparts new knowledge or understanding

(Medicine) The quantity of a vaccine, serum, drug, or other agent necessary to produce a specific effect.

The knowledge or wisdom so acquired. Missing the opening act taught me a lesson about being late.

A fixed amount of scholastic study used as a basis for calculating academic credits, usually measured in hours of classroom instruction or laboratory work.

Often Lesson A reading from the Bible or other sacred text as part of a religious service.

A section of an academic course focusing on a selected theme

To teach a lesson to; instruct.

The number immediately to the left of the decimal point in the Arabic numeral system.

To rebuke or reprimand.

The lowest positive whole number; one.

(archaic) To instruct to teach.

An element of a ring with a multiplicative inverse.

To give a lesson to; to teach.

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

A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.

(sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.

A learning task assigned to a student; homework.

The number one.

Something learned or to be learned.

Ellipsis of international unit

Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.

An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.

A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.

A member of a military organization.

A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.

(commerce) An item which may be sold singly.

(music) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.

Any piece of equipment, such as an appliance, power tool, stereo system, computer, tractor, or machinery.

Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time.

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.

That which is learned or taught by an express effort; instruction derived from precept, experience, observation, or deduction; a precept; a doctrine; as, to take or give a lesson in drawing.

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

A portion of Scripture read in divine service for instruction; as, here endeth the first lesson.

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

A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.

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

An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.

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.

To teach; to instruct.

(algebra) The identity element, neutral element.

A unit of instruction;

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

Punishment intended as a warning to others;

(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.

The significance of a story or event;

(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.

A task assigned for individual study;

(UK) A unit of alcohol.

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

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

A work unit.

A physically large person.

A penis, especially a large one.

For each unit.

(mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.

A single thing or person.

The least whole number; one.

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

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.

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

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

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

An organization regarded as part of a larger social group;

A single undivided whole;

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

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