Section vs. Unit — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Section and Unit
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Section
One of several components; a piece.
Unit
An individual, group, structure, or other entity regarded as an elementary structural or functional constituent of a whole.
Section
A subdivision of a written work.
Unit
A group regarded as a distinct entity within a larger group.
Section
(Law) A distinct portion or provision of a legal code or set of laws, often establishing a particular legal requirement
Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.
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Unit
A mechanical part or module.
Section
A distinct portion of a newspaper
The sports section.
Unit
An entire apparatus or the equipment that performs a specific function.
Section
A distinct area of a town, county, or country
A residential section.
Unit
A precisely specified quantity in terms of which the magnitudes of other quantities of the same kind can be stated.
Section
A land unit equal to one square mile (2.59 square kilometers), 640 acres, or 1/36 of a township.
Unit
(Medicine) The quantity of a vaccine, serum, drug, or other agent necessary to produce a specific effect.
Section
The act or process of separating or cutting, especially the surgical cutting or dividing of tissue.
Unit
A fixed amount of scholastic study used as a basis for calculating academic credits, usually measured in hours of classroom instruction or laboratory work.
Section
A thin slice, as of tissue, suitable for microscopic examination.
Unit
A section of an academic course focusing on a selected theme
A unit on Native Americans.
Section
A segment of a fruit, especially a citrus fruit.
Unit
The number immediately to the left of the decimal point in the Arabic numeral system.
Section
Representation of a solid object as it would appear if cut by an intersecting plane, so that the internal structure is displayed.
Unit
The lowest positive whole number; one.
Section
(Music) A group of instruments or voices in the same class considered as a division of a band, orchestra, or choir
The rhythm section.
The woodwind section.
Unit
An element of a ring with a multiplicative inverse.
Section
A class or discussion group of students taking the same course
She taught three sections of English composition.
Unit
(mathematics) Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.
Section
A portion of railroad track maintained by a single crew.
Unit
(sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.
The centimetre is a unit of length.
Section
An area in a train's sleeping car containing an upper and lower berth.
Unit
The number one.
Section
An army tactical unit smaller than a platoon and larger than a squad.
Unit
Ellipsis of international unit
This pill provides 500 units of Vitamin E.
Section
A unit of vessels or aircraft within a division of armed forces.
Unit
An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
He was a member of a special police unit.
Section
One of two or more vehicles, such as a bus or train, given the same route and schedule, often used to carry extra passengers.
Unit
A member of a military organization.
The fifth tank brigade moved in with 20 units. (i.e., 20 tanks)
Section
The character (§) used in printing to mark the beginning of a section.
Unit
(commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
We shipped nearly twice as many units this month as last month.
Section
This character used as the fourth in a series of reference marks for footnotes.
Unit
Any piece of equipment, such as an appliance, power tool, stereo system, computer, tractor, or machinery.
This air-conditioner is the most efficient unit we sell.
Section
(Informal) A cesarean section.
Unit
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.
The new apartment complex will have 50 units.
Section
To separate or divide into parts.
Unit
Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organization.
Section
To cut or divide (tissue) surgically.
Unit
An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
Section
To shade or crosshatch (part of a drawing) to indicate sections.
Unit
A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or detailed. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.
Section
(Informal) To perform a cesarean section on.
Unit
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.
Section
A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
Unit
(algebra) The identity element, neutral element.
Section
A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
Unit
(algebra) An element having an inverse, an invertible element; an associate of the unity.
Regular element
Section
(music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
The horn section is the group of symphonic musicians who play the French horn.
Unit
(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.
Section
A part of a document.
Unit
(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.
Section
An act or instance of cutting.
Unit
(UK) A unit of alcohol.
Section
A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
Unit
One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
Section
(aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
Unit
(historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
Section
(surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
Unit
A work unit.
Section
(sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
Unit
A physically large person.
Section
(botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
Unit
A penis, especially a large one.
Section
(zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
Unit
For each unit.
We have to keep our unit costs down if we want to make a profit.
Section
(military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
Unit
(mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.
Section
(category theory) A right inverse.
Unit
A single thing or person.
Section
(NZ) A piece of residential land; a plot.
Unit
The least whole number; one.
Units are the integral parts of any large number.
Section
(Canadian) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
Unit
A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings.
Section
Any of the squares, each containing 640 acres, into which the public lands of the United States were divided.
Unit
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.
Section
The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
Unit
A single thing, as a magnitude or number, regarded as an undivided whole.
Section
(geology) A sequence of rock layers.
Unit
Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange;
The dollar is the United States unit of currency
A unit of wheat is a bushel
Change per unit volume
Section
A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
Unit
An individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole;
The reduced the number of units and installations
The word is a basic linguistic unit
Section
To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
Unit
An organization regarded as part of a larger social group;
The coach said the offensive unit did a good job
After the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit
Section
To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
Unit
A single undivided whole;
An idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another
Section
(UK) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
Unit
A single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else;
Units of nucleic acids
Section
To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
Unit
An assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity;
How big is that part compared to the whole?
The team is a unit
Section
The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.
Section
A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.
Section
A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character often used to denote such a division.
It is hardly possible to give a distinct view of his several arguments in distinct sections.
Section
The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point.
Section
A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines, or of a people considered as distinct.
The extreme section of one class consists of bigoted dotards, the extreme section of the other consists of shallow and reckless empirics.
Section
A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; - often indicated by the sign .
Section
One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preëmption laws.
Section
A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.
Section
The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile.
Section
A self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical);
He always turns first to the business section
The history of this work is discussed in the next section
Section
A very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope;
Sections from the left ventricle showed diseased tissue
Section
A distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people;
No section of the nation is more ardent than the South
There are three synagogues in the Jewish section
Section
One of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object;
A section of a fishing rod
Metal sections were used below ground
Finished the final segment of the road
Section
A small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
Section
One of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole;
The written part of the exam
The finance section of the company
The BBC's engineering division
Section
A land unit of 1 square mile measuring 1 mile on a side
Section
(geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
Section
A division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
Section
A small army unit usually having a special function
Section
A specialized division of a large organization;
You'll find it in the hardware department
She got a job in the historical section of the Treasury
Section
A segment of a citrus fruit;
He ate a section of the orange
Section
The cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
Section
Divide into segments;
Segment an orange
Segment a compound word
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