Unit vs Pack - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between unit and pack

is that unit is a standard measure of a quantity while pack is a bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods.

As an adjective unit

is for each unit.

As a verb pack is

to put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.

unit

English

(Unit)

Noun

(en noun)

(sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.

The centimetre is a unit of length.

The number one.

This pill provides 500 units of Vitamin E.

An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.

He was a member of a special police unit .

(military, informal) A member of a military organization.

The fifth tank brigade moved in with 20 units .'' (''i.e., 20 tanks )

(US, military) Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organizationJoint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006). .

(US, military) An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.

(US, military) A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued or used. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.

(US, military) 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.

(algebra) An element of a ring having a multiplicative inverse. (Formerly just the identity element 1_R of a ring.)

(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.

(commerce) An item which may be sold singly.

We shipped nearly twice as many units this month as last month.

(UK, electricity) One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).

(Australia, New Zealand) 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.

(historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.

(Camden)

Synonyms

* (identity element) identity element, unit element

Adjective

(-)

For each unit.

We have to keep our unit costs down if we want to make a profit.

(mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.

* 1990 , William W. S. Wei, Time Series Analysis , ISBN 0201159112, page 9:

Consider the following time sequence

*::

Z_t=A\sin(\omega t+\theta)

where $A$ is a random variable with a zero mean and a unit variance and $\theta$ is a random variable with a uniform distribution on the interval $[-\pi,\pi]$ independent of $A$ .

Derived terms

* construction unit * tractor unit * unit aircraft * unitality * unit cost * unit combat readiness * unit commitment status * unit designation list

References

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Anagrams

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pack

English

Noun

(pack) (en noun)

A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods.

The horses carried the packs across the plain.

A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.

A pack of lies.

A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.

A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack.

We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack .

A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.

* 2005 , John D. Skinner and Christian T. Chimimba, The Mammals of the Southern African Subregion?

African wild dogs hunt by sight, although stragglers use their noses to follow the pack .

A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang;

a pack of thieves or knaves.

A group of Cub Scouts.

A shook of cask staves.

A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.

A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.

The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.

An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.

(slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.

(snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.

(rugby) The team on the field.

Synonyms

(full set of cards) deck

Derived terms

* blister pack * bowl pack * daypack * Duluth pack * eight-pack * expansion pack * fanny pack * froth pack * ice pack * jet pack/jetpack/jet-pack * pack animal * pack ice * pack journalism * pack mentality * pack rat * RAM pack * rocket pack * service pack * six-pack

Verb

(en verb)

(label) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.

# (label) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass.

#* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

strange materials packed up with wonderful art

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Wherethe bones / Of all my buried ancestors are packed .

# (label) To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into.

#*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed , and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}

# (label) To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.

# (label) To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam.

# (label) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.

# (label) To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass.

# (label) To gather in flocks or schools.

(label) To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly.

# To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.

#* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

Mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.

# (label) To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result.

#* (Francis Atterbury) (1663-1732)

The expected council was dwindling intoa packed assembly of Italian bishops.

# (label) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.

#* (Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)

He lost lifeupon a nice point subtilely devised and packed by his enemies.

# (label) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.

#* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,

This naughty man / Shall face to face be brought to Margaret, / Who, I believe, was pack'd in all this wrong, / Hired to it by your brother.

(label) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey

To move, send or carry.

# (label) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven.

# To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or animals).

# (label) To depart in haste; – generally with off'' or ''away .

#* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

Poor Stella must pack off to town.

#* (1809-1892)

You shall pack , / And never more darken my doors again.

# To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.

To block a shot, especially in basketball.

To wear a simulated penis inside one’s trousers for better verisimilitude.

Synonyms

* stack

Antonyms

* (make into a pack) unpack

Derived terms

* pack away * pack fudge * pack heat * pack horse * pack in * pack off * pack on * pack train * pack up * packer