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Unit vs. Meme — What's the Difference?

Unit vs. Meme — What's the Difference?

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Unit

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

Meme

A meme ( MEEM) is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme. A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme.

Unit

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

Meme

An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation or other non-genetic means.

Unit

A mechanical part or module.
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Meme

An image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by Internet users, often with slight variations.

Unit

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

Meme

A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.

Unit

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

Meme

An image or short video clip, often accompanied by a humorous saying or popular catchphrase, that is transmitted virally, especially on social media.

Unit

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

Meme

A humorous saying or popular catchphrase that is transmitted virally, especially as a caption for such an image or video clip.

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.

Meme

(originally) Any unit of (originally cultural) information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.

Unit

A section of an academic course focusing on a selected theme
A unit on Native Americans.

Meme

(Internet) Media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, such as basic pictures, video templates, etc.

Unit

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

Meme

(Internet) A specific instance of a meme, such as an image macro or a video, often with humorous superimposed text.
This meme generator lets you make your own memes by adding a caption to existing images, or by uploading your own image.
I'm always posting memes on the groupchat.

Unit

The lowest positive whole number; one.

Meme

Something not to be taken seriously; a joke.
It's a meme degree, you know. Good luck getting a job from that.
Jogging is a meme.

Unit

An element of a ring with a multiplicative inverse.

Meme

Granny; nana

Unit

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

Meme

To create and use humorous memes.

Unit

(sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.
The centimetre is a unit of length.

Meme

To turn into a meme; to use a meme, especially to achieve a goal in real life.
To meme into existence

Unit

The number one.

Meme

To joke around.

Unit

Ellipsis of international unit
This pill provides 500 units of Vitamin E.

Meme

A cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one generation to another by nongenetic means (as by imitation);
Memes are the cultrual counterpart of genes

Unit

An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
He was a member of a special police unit.

Unit

A member of a military organization.
The fifth tank brigade moved in with 20 units. (i.e., 20 tanks)

Unit

(commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
We shipped nearly twice as many units this month as last month.

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.

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.

Unit

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

Unit

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

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.

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.

Unit

(algebra) The identity element, neutral element.

Unit

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

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.

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.

Unit

(UK) A unit of alcohol.

Unit

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

Unit

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

Unit

A work unit.

Unit

A physically large person.

Unit

A penis, especially a large one.

Unit

For each unit.
We have to keep our unit costs down if we want to make a profit.

Unit

(mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.

Unit

A single thing or person.

Unit

The least whole number; one.
Units are the integral parts of any large number.

Unit

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

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.

Unit

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

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

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

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

Unit

A single undivided whole;
An idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another

Unit

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

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

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