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▪ I. unit, n. (and a.)|ˈjuːnɪt|
Also 6–8 unite.
[f. L. ūn-us one; the ending was probably suggested by digit and composit(e.
Introduced by Dee, who thus draws attention to the form in his Math. Pref. (1570) *iij marg., Note the worde, Vnit, to expresse the Greke Monas, and not Vnitie: as we haue all, commonly, till now, vsed.]
1. a. Math. A single magnitude or number regarded as an undivided whole and as the ultimate base of all number; spec. in Arithmetic, the least whole number; the numeral ‘one’, represented by the figure 1. Cf. unity 1 b.
α1570Dee Math. Pref. *iij, Number, we define, to be, a certayne Mathematicall Summe, of Vnits. And, an Vnit, is that thing Mathematicall, Indiuisible, by participation of some likenes of whose property, any thing, which is in deede, or is counted One, may reasonably be called One. 1575Recorde Gr. Artes Y iij b, An Improper Fraction,..that is to saye, a fraction in forme, which in dede is greater than an Unit. 1654J. Eyre Exact Surveyor 12 In the ordinary use of this [Decimal] Chain, for measuring and plotting, you may take onely notice of Units and Primes. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. vii. xxxiv. 51 The Characteristick of any Logarithme must consist of an Unit less than the given Number consisteth of Digits or Places. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Number, Cardinal Numbers [are] those which express the Quantity of Units; as, 1, 2, &c. 1794S. Cunn Doctr. Fractions 62 Repetends that begin at the same place, whether at Units, Primes, Seconds. 1832Hood Ode to J. Hume i, Units, Tens, Hundreds, Thousands, Millions. 1838De Morgan Ess. Probab. 33 Write down as many numbers, reckoning downwards, as there are units in the number. 1875Encycl. Brit. II. 527/1 [In arithmetical notation] the figure placed furthest to the right has the same significance as when it stands alone, i.e. it represents units.
β1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. i ij, Compte..swa mony epactis as yair is vnites in ye golden nombre. 1597Blundevil Exerc. (ed. 2) i. vii. 12 Such [numbers] as cannot bee divided but that there will remaine some odde unite, those are called Primes. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 226 The great variety the number seven doth produce by the various transposition of its unites. 1679Moxon Math. Dict. 162 An Unite is the beginning of Number, and..receiveth no division in Numbers, even as a Point in Magnitudes. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. II. 89/1 If, as some affirm, the unite be no number, but only the source of all others.
†b. Without article: = unity 1 b. Obs.
1717Phil. Trans. XXX. 618 The Logarithm of Unite is nothing; and..the nearer any Number is to Unite, the nearer will its Logarithm be to 0. 1823Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 364 In the proportion of a million at least to unit.
c. Any determinate quantity, dimension, or magnitude adopted as a basis or standard of measurement for other quantities of the same kind and in terms of which their magnitude is calculated or expressed.
A large number of special units adopted in technical and scientific use are recorded in some Dicts.
1738Chambers Cycl. s.v. Degree, Thus, a Degree, as being the integer or unite, is denoted by °. 1816Playfair Nat. Phil. II. 209 Hitherto, the distance of the Sun from the Earth has served as the unit, by which we have measured all other distances in the planetary system. 1825Jefferson Autobiog. Wks. 1859 I. 52 The necessity of establishing a standard of value with us, and of the adoption of a money Unit. 1854Ronalds & Richardson Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 253 The loss of heat from these sources has been estimated..at about 7 units of heat per hour per square foot. 1867Noad Text. Bk. Electricity 201 The unit of a current conveys a unit of electricity through the circuit in a unit of time. 1870F. L. Pope Electric Tel. iii. (1872) 25 The ohm is a unit of resistance, in the same manner that an inch is a unit of length, or a pound a unit of weight. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. 323 Musical people..have not yet fixed their unit of time.
Comb.1892Nation (N.Y.) 15 Dec. 459/1 The hopeful earnestness with which Mr. Norman offers his unit-of-weight system as a panacea for the cure of all financial ills.
(b) spec. one kilowatt-hour, as the unit used in measuring and charging for mains electricity; also, the unit used for metered telephone calls.
1891Minutes of Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers CVI. 16 Fuel used..has..fallen from 12 lbs. to 7·9 lbs. per unit generated. 1926–7Army & Navy Stores Catal. 344/3 Electric radiators... Two bars..consumes 2 units per hour when full-on. 1961Which? Dec. 334/1 Local and trunk calls are divided into 2d. ‘units’, the amount of the time you get for your 2d. depending on the distance. 1972Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 12 May 15/1 Food freezers are inexpensive to run, using about 2 units of electricity for each cubic foot per week.
d. A substance adopted as a standard by which the specific gravity of various bodies is estimated.
1829Chapters Phys. Sci. 169 As water is taken as the unit for solids and liquids, so is atmospheric air for gases. 1869Gill Chem. for Sch. xxii. 274 Dalton..adopted it [sc. hydrogen] as the unit or standard of atomic weight.
e. (See quots. and repeat n. 4 b.)
1855R. N. Wornum Anal. Ornament 18 Units of repetition, or repeats of irregular shapes, arranged diagonally. Ibid. 19 As it is in this case the group that is repeated, the group of figures becomes the pattern or unit of repetition.
f. unit of account, a monetary unit in which accounts are kept; spec. in the European Economic Community (see quots. 1977 and 1982).
1882R. Bithell Counting-House Dict. 311 Unit of Account, the unit of value in which accounts are kept. It may, or may not, coincide with any coin in circulation... The Anglo-Saxon unit of account was the shilling..but no coin called a shilling was issued before the reign of Henry VII. 1959A. H. Robertson European Institutions ii. 42 After offsetting these balances (measured in ‘units of account’ equivalent to the gold value of the U.S. dollar) against each other, Members are left with a credit or debit account vis-à-vis the [European Payments] Union. 1973Physics Bull. Apr. 207/1 The four year allocation for direct research work amounts to 157·2 million units of account (ua, equal to the predevaluation US dollar, ie about {pstlg}65m). 1977Times 6 Dec. (Europa Suppl.) p. iii/6 Units of account, embryonic European currency used as a device for calculating the EEC budget, fixing farm prices and in certain transactions with non-Community countries. The value of the unit of account in national currencies depends on the purpose for which it is being used. 1982J. Phillips Dict. Trading Terms 67 The unit of account is now equivalent to a group, or ‘basket’ of fixed amounts of European currencies, and is described as a ‘basket unit of account’.
g. A basic measure of educational attainment credited to a student for completing the number of hours of study assigned to one section of an academic course. Cf. credit n. 13 d. U.S.
1894Univ. of Chicago Weekly 4 Oct. 4/1 The system of majors and minors, units and flunks, is harder to under⁓stand than any other ‘credit’ method in operation among educational institutions. 1930A. Flexner Universities ii. 47 When a college catalogue states that fifteen units of high school work are required for matriculation, a unit, as defined by the College Entrance Examination Board, represents one year's study in any one subject in a high school. 1945C. V. Good Dict. Educ. 436/1 Unit..(3) a basic measure used in calculating the amount of credit to be assigned to any particular course or the number of graduation credits earned by a pupil or student in completing a course..(a) in secondary education, one unit equals approximately 120 hours of classroom or laboratory work in a given subject..(b) in higher education,..one unit may equal 1 hour of class or laboratory work per week during one term, semester, or school year. 1974Aiken (S. Carolina) Standard 18 Apr. 4-c/3 Their required 18 units of study. 1981D. Rowntree Dict. Educ. 335 Unit... 3 (US) In high school, one hour in class per day of a subject (for five days a week over the academic year) counts as one course unit of that subject.
h. The standard unit of quantity by which bread and petrol were rationed during and immediately after the war of 1939–45; a coupon of this value.
1939Punch 18 Oct. 439 (caption), I can't move on—I've used up all my units. 1946[see B. U. s.v. B III. b]. 1948Daily Tel. 26 Oct. 5 Nine Hundred Petrol Units were stolen from an office at Swanley, Kent. 1963S. Cooper in Sissons & French Age of Austerity ii. 41 The Bread Unit represented seven ounces of bread... A large loaf..would require four Units, one pound of flour three Units.
2. a. A single individual or thing regarded as a member of a group or number of things or individuals, or discriminated from these as having a separate existence; one of the separate parts or members of which a complex whole or aggregate is composed or into which it may be analysed.
1642H. More Song of Soul ii. i. ii. 55 In number, measure, weight, he all things made; Each unite he dissevers by his Art. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xii. §6. 74 Which collective Ideas of several Substances thus put together, are as much each of them one single Idea, as that of a Man, or an Unite. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. To Rdr. 13 Some few Despicable Unadditionable Units or Unitarians. 1739Hume Hum. Nat. I. ii. ii, 'Tis evident, that existence in itself belongs only to unity, and is never applicable to number, but on account of the unites, of which the number is composed. 1817Scott Rob Roy xxxi, The unit of that life..was for ever withdrawn from the sum of human existence. 1856Merivale Rom. Emp. xl. IV. 459 Our history becomes a review of the affairs of a vast unit, the aggregate of a multitude of smaller members. 1872H. C. Bastian Begin. Life I. 216 Before a nucleus is evolved.., the simple living unit (plastide) is able to assimilate nutritive material and grow.
b. That division or section of a collective body or whole which is regarded as the lowest or least to have a distinctive existence; such a division or group of individuals considered as a basis of formation or administration.
1847Grote Greece ii. xxviii. IV. 68 The village is a fraction, but the city is an unit. 1861Maine Anc. Law v. 126 The unit of ancient society was the Family. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. II. 224 The county remained the practically important unit of local administration, the unit to which the various functions of government were aggregated.
c. In military or naval use.
1876Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict. 446/1 In military organization, the term unit is applied to that single portion upon which any part of an army, regiment, &c. is formed. Thus a company is the unit of a regiment; a battery, that of a brigade of artillery. 1893Infantry Drill p. xxiii, [A] Battalion [is] the unit of infantry. 1899Times 14 Oct. 9 A waterproof bag which is left at the base..on a unit going into action.
d. A group of buildings, wards, etc., in a hospital; spec. one equipped to provide a particular type of health care.
1893D. Galton Healthy Hospitals xiii. 229 Separation of the ward unit has been the principal feature of modern hospital construction in Germany and..the United States. 1911W. Osler in Lancet 28 Jan. 212/1 There might be, as at Berlin and Vienna, two or three medical and the same number of surgical units. 1927J. E. Stone Hospital Organization & Management xiv. 287 The operating theatre unit is a very important part of a hospital. 1955R. F. Bridgman Rural Hospital ii. 70 With the rural hospital as a base, mobile health-units may be organized, through which modern medical techniques can be taken to the villages in sparsely populated countries with poor communications. 1965Nursing Times 5 Feb. p. vi/1 (Advt.), Plastic Surgery and Burns Unit..Regional Thoracic Surgical Unit. 1976Amer. Speech 1973 XLVIII. 195 The inhalation therapist, for example, supplies hospital floors, or units, with oxygen masks and in emergencies is summoned to start and operate O2 tents ‘oxygen tents’.
e. A piece of (esp. storage) furniture or equipment which may be fitted with other pieces to form a larger system, or which is itself composed of smaller complementary parts. Freq. attrib. Also transf. (see also unit audio, construction, sense 3 c below).
1912L. Weaver House & its Equipment 44 The unit system of bookcases, by which they are built up of sections of standard size, and are thus capable of indefinite expansion. 1930N.Y. Times 10 Aug. v. 14/4 He [sc. Franz Schuster] has developed a kind of ‘unit’ furniture. He reduces the shapes of chest and cabinet to their fundamental forms and by standardizing their measurements permits the combination of parts by the manufacturer. 1937[see kitchen unit s.v. kitchen n. 5 c]. 1944J. van Druten Voice of Turtle i. 3 The kitchen has an icebox, stove and sink in a combined unit in the left wall. 1958Engineering 7 Mar. 320/2 The cooking unit..is mounted on top of a storage cupboard with a sliding serving shelf. 1974Gramophone Nov. 1009 The connoisseur takes pride in choosing separate units. 1978[see recliner 2]. 1981M. E. Atkins Palimpsest ix. 92 I'm going to..start with the kitchen. I'll have units all round, a new sink and cooker.
f. An accommodation unit in a larger building or group of buildings, esp. in a block of flats or a motel. U.S., Austral., and N.Z.
1932F. L. Wright Autobiogr. ii. 223, I lingered in Los Angeles aided by my son Lloyd working on the new unit-block system. 1937Tourist Court Jrnl. Oct. 6/2 Being separate units each cottage is assured of ample ventilation..through the windows on each side. 1953Hotel Monthly Nov. 27/1 Additional units will be added to the Kahler Ranchotel. 1963D. B. Hughes Expendable Man ii. 46 No one was waiting for him at the motel. No one stopped him at the door of his unit. 1971‘A. Blaisdell’ Practice to Deceive i. 2 She lived in one unit of a triplex. 1973Sun-Herald (Sydney) 26 Aug. 103/1 We live in a unit in a delinquency-prone inner area. 1980‘D. Shannon’ Felony Files x. 230 It was a pleasant, unpretentious furnished apartment in a six-unit place.
g. = film unit s.v. film n. 7 c.
1959E. H. Clements High Tension i. 13 The hectic urgency of everyone else in the unit. 1962L. Davidson Rose of Tibet i. 26 Location work would have finished in Calcutta and..the unit would have moved up into the foothills of Everest.
3. attrib., passing into adj., with the general meaning ‘of, pertaining or equivalent to, (that of) a unit; produced or caused by a unit; consisting of, containing, or forming a unit or units’.
a. In sense 1 c, chiefly in Electr., as unit coil, unit current, unit force, unit jar, unit measure, unit pole, etc.
1839Noad Electricity i. 31 A very useful little electrical instrument..for registering the exact quantity of electricity given to a Leyden phial from the machine; it is called the unit jar. 1842Brande Dict. Sci., Unit jar..announce[s] by its repeated discharges, which may be counted, the number of them which have passed into the larger jar. 1844Noad Electricity (ed. 2) 53 The value of the unit measure. 1866R. M. Ferguson Electr. 17 A magnetic needle of unit size and strength. 1867Noad Text Bk. Electricity 201 A circuit of unit resistance. Ibid., The unit current flowing through a conductor unit of length will exert the unit force on the unit pole at the unit distance. 1867Brande & Cox Dict. Sci., etc. III. 899/1 Unit coil,..a standard measure used by electricians for expressing the amount of resistance experienced in a given electrical circuit. 1873J. C. Maxwell Electr. & Magn. II. 3 The unit-pole is a pole which points north, and is such that, when placed at unit distance from another unit-pole, it repels it with unit of force. 1876P. G. Tait Rec. Adv. Phys. Sci. (ed. 2) xiv. 357 Unit force is..that force which, whatever be its source, produces unit momentum in unit of time. 1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl. 913/2 Unit and safety valve, one exposing 1 square inch to the force of the steam.
b. In general use.
1896R. G. Moulton Lit. Study Bible xi. 258 These Unit Proverbs exhibit two varieties. 1897Daily News 9 Feb. 3/4 Was the scheme to be organized on brigade, battalion, or unit lines? Ibid., The unit system of organization. 1898Engineering Mag. XVI. 104 A plant of a certain size may be run by a unit-body of men. 1898Sir W. Crookes in Daily News 8 Sept. 6/1 The consumption of wheat per head of the population (unit consumption) was over 6 bushels per annum.
c. Special Combinations. unit audio, a sound reproduction system which comprises separate matching parts; unit cell Cryst., the smallest structural unit having the overall symmetry of a crystal, which by repetition in three dimensions gives the entire lattice; unit character Genetics, a character inherited according to Mendelian laws, esp. one controlled by a single pair of alleles; also, † the alleles themselves (see quot. 1966); unit construction, modular construction, esp. of buildings (cf. modular a. 1 b); unit cost Accounting, the cost of manufacturing or otherwise processing one unit of production; unit factor Genetics = gene1 (cf. factor n. 7 b); now hist.; unit-holder, one who holds securities in a unit trust; unit-linked a., of a life assurance policy (see quot. 1979); unit load, a package of goods arranged for shipment, etc., as a single unit (esp. on a pallet) to facilitate handling; unit matrix Math. = identity matrix s.v. identity 10; unit membrane Biol., any lipoprotein membrane composed of two electron-dense layers enclosing a less dense layer, found enclosing many cells and cell organelles; unit price, the price at which a single unit of a commodity is sold; unit pricing (see quot. 1970); unit train N. Amer., a train allocated to transport a single commodity (i.e. coal or grain) at special rates between two points; unit trust, an investment group investing combined contributions from many persons in various securities and paying them dividends in proportion to their holdings.
1966Hi-Fi News Nov. 592/3 ‘*Unit audio’ is the name given to a new range of matching equipment... Two loudspeakers, a tuner-amplifier, an amplifier and a tape recorder..are available. 1976Gramophone Nov. 880/1 People without expert knowledge will generally find it easier to buy a ‘unit audio’ system made up from matching units from the same manufacturer.
1915W. H. & W. L. Bragg X-Rays & Crystal Structure viii. 116 Only calcium and carbon atoms are shown in their places in the *unit cell of the structure. 1930G. P. Thomson Wave Mech. Free Electrons iii. 40 Each unit cell of a crystal lattice contains the same amount of matter similarly arranged. 1966C. R. Tottle Sci. Engin. Materials iii. 50 In many cases it is convenient to avoid drawing the complete crystal lattice extended over many unit cells, and merely to draw the unit cell itself. 1977A. Hallam Planet Earth 114 All crystalline substances have lattices built of one of these types of unit cell.
1902Bateson & Saunders Rep. Evol. Comm. R. Soc. I. 126 The purity of the germ-cells, and their inability to transmit both of the antagonistic characters, is the central fact proved by Mendel's work. We thus reach the conception of *unit-characters existing in antagonistic pairs. Such characters we propose to call allelomorphs. 1903Biometrika II. 286 Mendel was the first to systematically analyse the differential characters of a race or species into a series of unit-characters, each of which might..be inherited independently of the others. 1915T. H. Morgan et al. Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity ix. 210 So much misunderstanding has arisen amongst geneticists themselves through the careless use of the term ‘unit character’ that the term deserves the disrepute into which it is falling. 1945M. F. Glaessner Princ. Micropalaeontol. v. 79 The numerical values of morphological features (unit characters) plotted against numbers of specimens in which the progressive values occur, tend to arrange themselves in a regular curve. 1966E. A. Carlson Gene ii. 13 The unit-character [of Bateson] combined the ‘differentiating character’ used by Mendel with the ‘formative element’ which he assumed to represent it in the germ cell.
1921Conquest May 291/2 Houses built on the ‘*Unit’ construction system... The concrete blocks are made of a standard size, the dimensions of windows and door openings being made multiples of the block size. 1959Motor Manual (ed. 36) v. 3 The body now forms the main structure of the car... This form of construction is now known by a variety of names, including ‘integral construction’, ‘unit construction’ and ‘chassisless construction’. 1964McCall's Sewing ii. 33/1 Unit construction, organisation of sewing procedure so that an entire garment section is completed before it is joined to another.
1914E. H. Jones Unit Construction Costs from New Smelter 1498 These *unit costs..represent delays in material shipments.., delayed plans,..labor troubles, [etc.]. 1962Listener 17 May 835/1 Wages and unit costs rise faster than ever. 1978J. Kellock Elements of Accounting iii. 66 The stock valuation..is calculated by taking a physical stock count of the stock on hand at the end of the period and multiplying each item by the appropriate unit of cost... Unit cost is the cost of purchasing or manufacturing identifiable units of stock.
1911*Unit factor [see gene1]. 1926J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 9 Inheritance takes place by means of separable units, generally known as unit-factors or genes. 1966E. A. Carlson Gene iv. 26 When unit-character was changed to ‘unit-factor’ or to ‘factor’ alone, Castle no longer dissociated the transmitting agent from its effect on a character.
1965M. Naylor Your Money 87 One great advantage of unit trusts is that *unit-holders can buy or sell at any time, and get the ‘true’ value of their investment. 1969Daily Tel. 8 Feb. 6/3 A unit trust management pays capital gains tax at 30 p.c. for either long- or short-term gains, irrespective of the tax position of the individual unitholder.
1969Times 30 Apr. 28/3 Nearly every time we open the paper we read of the attractions of Unit Trusts and *Unit-linked life assurance policies. 1979F. E. Perry Dict. Banking 258/2 Unit-linked policy, a type of life assurance policy where a part of the premium is invested on behalf of the assured in a unit trust.
1939Steel 12 June 54/1 (caption) *Unit load of four edgewise-wound copper coils on pallet handled by fork truck. 1945D. L. Beattie Unit Load Materials Handling I. 9 Once the unit load is established for a material, there is every reason to expect that this unit load may be standardized. 1970Times 2 June (Container Suppl.) p. i/1 The British Transport Docks Board has a nationwide network of nine well equipped ports, providing some of the most advanced facilities for unit-load handling.
1862*Unit-matrix [see premultiplication]. 1972M. Kline Math. Thought xxxiii. 807 The product of a matrix and its inverse is the unit matrix, denoted by I.
1959J. D. Robertson in E. M. Crook Structure & Function Subcellular Components (Biochem. Soc. Symposium XVI) 33 Perhaps the gap substance or the character of the *unit membrane surfaces here is different. 1970Ambrose & Easty Cell Biol. v. 173 The chloroplast, like all plastids, is bounded by a double unit membrane.
1934Webster, *Unit price. 1953[see field n. 15 f]. 1977P. Way Super-Celeste i. 45 Whoever sold a plane here would sell it to NATO through the 1990s. Sell here and the unit price would come down.
1970Wall St. Jrnl. 17 June 40/4 Mr. Alldredge..told the meeting that ‘*unit pricing’, or the marking of all packaged commodities with the price per unit weight, ‘would be frighteningly expensive’. 1971Guardian 3 June 2/6 Unit pricing, a new system under which large supermarkets have to indicate the cost of food items by measure, completed its first day here [sc. in New York].
1967Times Rev. Industry Apr. 47/2 *Unit trains working on the principles now applied in the Great Lakes coal trade would discharge coal through ground hoppers without uncoupling. 1979Sci. Amer. Jan. 29/1 (caption) Coal-carrying ‘unit’ trains have been developed to move coal expeditiously at low cost, usually between one mine and one customer, which is most often an electric utility. The trains shuttle back and forth without being uncoupled, acting much like a conveyor belt.
1936Economist 18 Apr. 135/2 Three new trusts with different degrees of flexibility have recently appeared, which extend the activities of the *unit trust movement into new fields. 1958Spectator 18 July 108/1 All unit trusts have this much in common: investments..are deposited with a bank or insurance company, acting as trustee, who issues participation certificates (called units) in exchange. 1980Times 5 Jan. 18 Most of the unit trusts managed not to lose too much money for unit holders last year.
4. As adj. Having the distinct or individual existence of a unit; individual.
1870J. H. Newman Gram. Assent i. i. 7 All things in the exterior world are unit and individual;..the mind contemplates these unit realities as they exist. a1881A. Barratt Phys. Metempiric (1883) 115 If the unit minds were parts or modes of this absolute mind.
Sense 1 h in Dict. becomes 1 i. Add: [1.] h. Comm. The smallest measure of investment in a unit trust.
1930Economist 8 Nov. 865/2 Participation in the [fixed] trust takes the form of certificates..specifying a fractional interest in a block or unit of the fixed common stocks held by the trust company. 1959Times 14 Jan. 13/6 Early Unit Trusts had a fixed unit of investment... Unit certificates were issued only against successive deposits of a fixed portfolio of securities, the unit of investment. 1965J. L. Hanson Dict. Econ. 390/1 Prices of units vary.., but most unit trusts..prefer units of fairly small denominations. 1988Which? Way to Save & Invest (ed. 3) xvi. 281 When you invest in a unit trust you buy units in the trust from the management company.
[2.] h. A vehicle, esp. one that has both engine and carriage facilities within a single body; spec. in N.Z., a suburban diesel train.
[1902, etc.: see multiple-unit s.v. multiple a. 4 b.] 1962Amer. Speech XXXVII. 136 In railroad logging, a unit consisted of both the yarding and the loading engine set up on one car. 1970Landfall XXIV. 216 The unit was crammed full, women in the seats and the aisles sticky with children. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 6 July 8-d/6 (Advt.), V8, automatic transmission, power steering and brakes, A good looking unit, Rust/Orange color. 1980J. Ball Then came Violence xviii. 170, I picked up a plain unit to help in the search. 1983M. Gee Sole Survivor xx. 210 In the afternoon I caught a unit out to Simla Crescent. 1986Lydney Observer 12 Sept. 6/5 (Advt.), Sale of commercial vehicles,..including excellent ERF Scania unit.
▪ II. unit
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