unit vs bit

unit and bit both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
unit	Yes	No	No	No
bit	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bit is a hyponym of unit; that is, bit is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than unit:

unit: any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
bit: a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states

Other hyponyms of unit include measuring block, measuring unit, denier, diopter, dioptre, carat, karat, kt, absorption unit, acceleration unit, angular unit, area unit, square measure, capacity measure, capacity unit, cubage unit, cubature unit, cubic content unit, cubic measure, displacement unit, volume unit, computer memory unit, electromagnetic unit, emu, explosive unit, force unit, linear measure, linear unit, metric, metric unit, miles per gallon, monetary unit, megaflop, MFLOP, million floating point operations per second, teraflop, trillion floating point operations per second, million instructions per second, MIPS, pain unit, pressure unit, printing unit, sound unit, telephone unit, temperature unit, weight, weight unit, mass unit, unit of viscosity, energy unit, heat unit, work unit, langley, Brinell number, point, electrostatic unit, tkm, tonne-kilometer, tonne-kilometre, man-month, machine-hour, L/100 km, liters per hundred kilometers, litres per hundred kilometres, ban, dit, Hart, hartley, deciban, billion floating point operations per second, GFLOPS, gigaflop, EFLOPS, exaflop, zettaflop, ZFLOPS, YFLOPS, yottaflop, petaflop, PFLOPS, credit point, ECTS-credit point, ECTS credit.

unit (noun)	bit (noun)
an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity	the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press
a single undivided whole	piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding
an organization regarded as part of a larger social group	the part of a key that enters a lock and lifts the tumblers
a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else	a short performance that is part of a longer program
any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange	a small fragment
an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole	an instance of some kind
	a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
	a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
	a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states
	a small piece or quantity of something
	an indefinitely short time

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