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unit vs carat

carat vs unit

unit and carat both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
unit Yes No No No
carat Yes No No No
As nouns, carat is a hyponym of unit; that is, carat is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than unit:
  • unit: any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
  • carat: the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold
Other hyponyms of unit include measuring block, measuring unit, denier, diopter, dioptre, 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, bit, 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) carat (noun)
an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity a unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg
a single undivided whole the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold
an organization regarded as part of a larger social group
a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else
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
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