Unit vs. Lot — What's the Difference?

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

A large number or amount; a great deal

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

A great deal; much

A mechanical part or module.

A river of southern France, which rises in the Auvergne and flows 480 km (300 miles) west to meet the River Garonne south-east of Bordeaux.

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

(in the Bible) the nephew of Abraham, who was allowed to escape from the destruction of Sodom (Gen. 19). His wife, who disobeyed orders and looked back, was turned into a pillar of salt.

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

Divide (items) into lots for sale at an auction

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

A large extent, amount, or number

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

Used adverbially to mean "to a great degree or extent" or "frequently"

A section of an academic course focusing on a selected theme

A number of associated people or things

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

Miscellaneous articles sold as one unit

The lowest positive whole number; one.

An individual of a particular kind or type

An element of a ring with a multiplicative inverse.

A piece of land having specific boundaries, especially one constituting a part of a city, town, or block.

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

A piece of land used for a given purpose

(sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.

The complete grounds of a film studio.

The number one.

The outdoor area of a film studio.

Ellipsis of international unit

An object used in making a determination or choice at random

An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.

The use of objects in making a determination or choice at random

A member of a military organization.

The determination or choice so made

(commerce) An item which may be sold singly.

One's fortune in life; one's fate

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

To apportion by lots; allot.

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.

To divide (land) into lots.

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

To divide (goods) into lots for sale.

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

A large quantity or number; a great deal.

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

A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.

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.

One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.

(algebra) The identity element, neutral element.

(informal) A number of people taken collectively.

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

A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.

(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.

That which happens without human design or forethought.

(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.

Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.

(UK) A unit of alcohol.

The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.

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

A prize in a lottery.

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

Allotment; lottery.

A work unit.

All members of a set; everything.

A physically large person.

(historic) An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.

A penis, especially a large one.

To allot; to sort; to apportion.

For each unit.

To count or reckon (on or upon).

(mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.

That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.

A single thing or person.

Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without man's choice or will; as, to cast or draw lots.

The least whole number; one.

The part, or fate, which falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.

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

A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively; all objects sold in a single purchase transaction; as, a lot of stationery; - colloquially, sometimes of people; as, a sorry lot; a bad lot.

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 distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field; as, a building lot in a city.

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

A large quantity or number; a great deal; as, to spend a lot of money; to waste a lot of time on line; lots of people think so.

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

A prize in a lottery.

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

To allot; to sort; to portion.

An organization regarded as part of a larger social group;

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;

A single undivided whole;

A parcel of land having fixed boundaries;

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

Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you);

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

Any collection in its entirety;

An unofficial association of people or groups;

Anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random;

(Old Testament) nephew of Abraham; God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah but chose to spare Lot and his family who were told to flee without looking back at the destruction

Divide into lots, as of land, for example

Administer or bestow, as in small portions;