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unit vs metric unit

metric unit vs unit

unit and metric unit both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
unit Yes No No No
metric unit Yes No No No
As nouns, metric unit is a hyponym of unit; that is, metric unit is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than unit:
  • unit: any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
  • metric unit: a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds)
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, 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) metric unit (noun)
an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds)
a single undivided whole
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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