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contesting (s) href="http://getwords.com/unit/188/ip:1/il:G">noun), contestings (pl)

A competition in which people strive to do better than others: One example is of a contesting to win a prize or to achieve a position of leadership or power: James and Jane had a marriage that was marred by perpetual contestings.

This entry is located in the following unit: testi-, test- (page 1)

unit

1. One of the individuals or groups that together constitute a whole; one of the parts or elements into which a whole may be divided or analyzed.
2. A group regarded as a distinct entity within a larger group.
3. A mechanical part or module, or an entire apparatus or the equipment that performs a specific function.
4. One of a number of things, organizations, etc., identical or equivalent in function or form.
5. Any specified amount of a quantity, as with reference to length, volume, force, momentum, or time, by comparison with which any other quantity of the same kind is measured or estimated.
6. In medicine, the quantity of a vaccine, serum, drug, or other agent necessary to produce a specific effect.
7. A fixed amount of scholastic study used as a basis for calculating academic credits, usually measured in hours of classroom instruction or laboratory work.
8. A section of an academic course focusing on a selected theme; such as, a unit on U.S History.
9. The number immediately to the left of the decimal point in the Arabic numeral system.
10. In mathematics, the lowest positive whole number; one.
11. Etymology: from 1570, "a single number regarded as an undivided whole", alteration of unity on the basis of a digit. Meaning "single thing regarded as a member of a group" is attested from 1642.

This entry is located in the following unit: uni-, un- (page 7)

unit, unite

unit (YOO nit) (noun)

1. A single thing, person, or group that is a part of something larger: "The basic unit of our society is the family."
2. A part of a hospital where a particular type of care is provided: "My father was put into the intensive care unit after having that bad accident."
3. A particular amount of length, time, money, etc., which is used as a standard for counting or measuring: "The Euro is the principal unit of Euopean currency."

unite (yoo NIGHT) (verb)

1. To join together to do or to achieve something: "The majority of students decided to unite to protest the increase of tuition for the upcoming semester."
2. To cause (two or more people or things) to be joined together and become one thing: "The couple wanted to unite in marriage last spring but couldn't because of the terrible car accident."

The cleaning staff that worked in the emergency unit of the hospital decided to unite and ask for better wages.

This entry is located in the following units: Confusing Words Clarified: Group U; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. + (page 1) uni-, un- (page 7)

Biopiracy: In the News

(biological theft by illegally collecting indigenous plants, microbes, enzymes, etc. by corporations who patent them for their own commercial use as defined at this bio unit page)

gram-, -gram-, -gram, -grammatic, -grammatical, -grammatically, -gramme, -grammic +

(Greek: write, writing, something written, a written record, a recording; letters; words; later, a small weight, a unit of mass in the metric system)

herm-, herme-

(Greek: Hermes, the son of Zeus and Maia, the god of commerce and messenger of the gods in Greek mythology; identified by the Romans as Mercury; however, some of the words in this unit come from Hermes tris megistos, Hermes Trismegistus, literally, "Hermes, Thrice the Greatest" referring to the Egyptian god Thoth, who was identified with the Greek god Hermes, of science and arts)

Holy Bible (s) (noun), Holy Bibles (pl)

(This unit consists of the titles of the Old and New Testaments.)

pend-, -pens, -pense, -pending, -pended

(Latin: hang, hanging; weigh, weighing; to cause to hang down; related to words in this pond- unit.)

pond-, -pond

(Latin: weight, weigh; heavy; to consider, to think about; closely related to this pend-, "hang, weigh, to hand down" unit of words)

tribu-, trib-

(Latin: to assign, to allot, to bestow, to give, to grant; from tribe, to give out among the tribes was tribuere which is the source of many of the words located in this unit)

volt +

(unit of measurement of electromotive force, or pressure, in an electrical circuit, or 'push', named for Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) renowned for his pioneering work in electricity)

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archaeological unit, archeological unit (s) (noun); archaeological units; archeological units (pl)

An arbitrary division of classification set up by an archaeologist to separate one grouping of artifacts from another in space and time: Those helping the archaeologist at the historical site were busy arranging the ancient man-made objects in archaeological units.

This entry is located in the following units: archaeo-, archeo-, archae-, arche-, archa-, archi-, -arch (page 2) logo-, log-, -logia, -logic, -logical, -logism, -logician, -logian, -logue (page 2)

astronomical unit, AU

1. The mean distance of the earth from the sun, which is 149,597,870 kilometers, or about 93 million miles.
2. A unit of length used by astronomers to measure distances in space.

One astronomical unit, or AU, is equal to the average distance between the earth and the sun, which is 92,955,806 miles or 149,597,870 kilometers.

This entry is located in the following unit: astro-, astr- (page 7)

astronomy unit

The average distance from earth to the sun; about 150 million kilometers.

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British thermal unit (Btu)

1. The quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water from 60 degress to 61 degrees Fahrenheit (3.9 C to 4.4C) at a constant pressure of one atmosphere.
2. The quantity of heat equal to 1/180 of the heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water from 32 degrees to 212 degrees Fahrenheit at a constant pressure of one atmosphere, equal to approximately 1055.056 joules.

A joule is the International System unit of energy or work, equal to the work done when the application point of one newton force moves one meter in the direction of application. Symbol J [Named for the British physicist James Prescott Joule, 1818-1889, noted for his research on the mechanical equivalent of heat].

This entry is located in the following unit: thermo-, therm-, thermi-, -thermia, -therm, -thermal, -thermic, -thermias, -thermies, -thermous, -thermy (page 3)

crisis-intervention unit

A group trained in emergency medical treatment and in various methods for rendering psychiatric therapeutic assistance to a person or group of patients during a period of crisis; especially, instances involving suicide attempts or drug abuse.

The main objectives of such crisis assistance procedures are to help people cope with their current problems and to offer guidance and support for long-term therapies.

This entry is located in the following unit: cris-, crit-, cri- (page 1)

electric unit (s) (noun), electric units (pl)

A unit for measuring the strength of an electric current.

Three different systems of electric units are used:

The electromagnetic unit.
The electrostatic unit.
The ordinary or practical units.

The commonly used practical units are the ampere or unit of current, the volt or unit of electromotive force, the ohm or unit of resistance, the coulomb or unit of quantity, the farad or unit of capacitance, and the watt or unit of power.

This entry is located in the following units: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 15) uni-, un- (page 1)

electromagnetic unit, EMU (noun) (s)

1. A unit based primarily on the magnetic effect of an electric current.
2. Any unit in the centimeter-gram-second system of units for measuring electricity and magnetism that gives a value of one to the magnetic constant; for example, the abampere, abfarad, abhenry, or the abvolt.

This entry is located in the following units: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 42) uni-, un- (page 1)

electron unit (s) (noun), electron units (pl)

A unit of charge, negative or positive, which is equal to the charge on an electron.

This entry is located in the following units: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 54) uni-, un- (page 1)

electronic control unit, ECU

1. A term for any embedded system that controls one or more of the electrical systems or subsystems in a motor vehicle.
2. A microprocessor and memory with electronic maps, forming the central part of an engine management system or of subsystems; such as, a fuel injection or ignition system.

This entry is located in the following units: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 60) uni-, un- (page 1)

electronic flash unit

A small xenon-filled tube with metal electrodes fused into ends.

The gas flashes brilliantly when a capacitor is discharged through the tube.

This entry is located in the following units: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 63) uni-, un- (page 1)

electrostatic unit

1. Any electrical unit of measure based on the attraction or repulsion of a static charge, as distinguished from an electromagnetic unit, which is defined in terms of the attraction or repulsion of magnetic poles.
2. A unit based primarily upon the force exerted between two electric charges.
3. An electric unit based primarily on the dynamic interaction of electric charges.

It is defined as a charge which, if concentrated on a small sphere, would repel with a force of one dyne which is a similar charge of one centimeter away in a vacuum.

This entry is located in the following units: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 85) uni-, un- (page 1)

electrostatic unit of charge

The quantity of electrical charge which repels an equal charge at a poiont in a vacuum at a distance of one centimeter with a force of one dyne.

This entry is located in the following units: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 86) uni-, un- (page 2)

electrosurgical unit

An radio frequency generator, the output of which is applied to a blade or wire loop used instead of a conventional scalpel for surgical incisions or excisions.

This entry is located in the following units: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 87) uni-, un- (page 2)

flux unit

Astrophysics, the unit of flux density or "brightness" used in radio astronomy.

This entry is located in the following units: fluct-, flucti-, -flux, flu-, flum-, -fluent, -fluence (page 5) uni-, un- (page 2)

geographical unit, geographic unit (s) (noun); geographical units; geographic units (pl)

An area based primarily on hydrologic boundaries adjusted as needed using a specified set of criteria to accommodate the inventory and analysis of natural resources: A geographic unit can vary in scale depending on the criteria used, the level of inventory and analysis needed, and the problems perceived. In all cases, geographic units incorporate both groundwater and surface water.

This entry is located in the following units: geo-, ge- + (page 11) grapho-, graph-, -graph, -graphy, -grapher, -graphia (page 38) uni-, un- (page 2)

geolith; rock-stratigraphic unit; lithologic unit; lithostratic unit; lithostratigraphic unit; rock unit

A lithologically (rocky) homogeneous body of strata characterized by certain observable physical features, or by the dominance of a certain rock type or combination of rock types.

Rock-stratigraphic units include groups, formations, members, and beds.

This entry is located in the following units: grapho-, graph-, -graph, -graphy, -grapher, -graphia (page 38) litho-, lith-, -lith, -lithic, -lite, -liths, -lites (page 5) uni-, un- (page 2)

pedologic unit

A soil considered without regard to its stratigraphic relations.

This entry is located in the following unit: pedo-, ped- + (page 2)

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