Unit vs. Team
Difference Between Unit and Team
Unitnoun
(mathematics) Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.
Teamnoun
A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
Unitnoun
(sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.
The centimetre is a unit of length.Teamnoun
Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
We need more volunteers for the netball team.The IT manager leads a team of three software developers.Unitnoun
The number one.
Teamnoun
(obsolete) A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.
Unitnoun
An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
He was a member of a special police unit.Teamnoun
A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
Unitnoun
A member of a military organization.
The fifth tank brigade moved in with 20 units. (i.e., 20 tanks)Teamverb
(intransitive) To form a group, as for sports or work.
They teamed to complete the project.Unitnoun
Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organization.
Teamverb
To go together well; to harmonize.
Unitnoun
An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
Teamverb
(transitive) To convey or haul with a team.
to team lumberUnitnoun
A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or detailed. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.
Teamverb
(transitive) To form together into a team.
to team oxenUnitnoun
With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units.
Teamverb
(transitive) To give work to a gang under a subcontractor.
Unitnoun
(algebra) The identity element, neutral element.
Teamnoun
a cooperative unit
Unitnoun
(algebra) An element having an inverse, an invertible element; an associate of the unity.
Teamnoun
two or more draft animals that work together to pull something
Unitnoun
(category theory) In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of the left adjoint functor to the composition of the right adjoint functor with the left adjoint functor.
Teamverb
form a team;
We teamed up for this new projectUnitnoun
(geology) A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it.
Unitnoun
(commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
We shipped nearly twice as many units this month as last month.Unitnoun
(UK) A unit of alcohol.
Unitnoun
One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
Unitnoun
a measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household; an apartment where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storied buildings or a group of dwellings is in one or more single storey buildings, usually arranged around a driveway.
Unitnoun
(historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
Unitnoun
A work unit.
Unitnoun
A physically large person.
Unitadjective
For each unit.
We have to keep our unit costs down if we want to make a profit.Unitadjective
(mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.
Unitnoun
any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange;
the dollar is the United States unit of currencya unit of wheat is a bushelchange per unit volumeUnitnoun
an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole;
the reduced the number of units and installationsthe word is a basic linguistic unitUnitnoun
an organization regarded as part of a larger social group;
the coach said the offensive unit did a good jobafter the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unitUnitnoun
a single undivided whole;
an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to anotherUnitnoun
a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else;
units of nucleic acidsUnitnoun
an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity;
how big is that part compared to the whole?the team is a unit
