Unit vs Shard - What's the difference?

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Unit is a related term of shard.

As verbs the difference between unit and shard

is that unit is while shard is to fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.

As a noun shard is

a piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig or shard can be the plant chard.

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

External links

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Anagrams

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shard

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) sceard . Akin to Dutch ).

Alternative forms

* sherd

Noun

(en noun)

A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.

A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.

* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]

Inside its exhibit hall, behind panes of glass, in a white-lit lab, a team of restorers works on an ancient Byzantine floor: 44 square yards of stone shards rescued from Lot’s Cave Monastery.

A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.

(online role-playing) An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources.

* 1997 , Ultima Online''. The term "shard" is related to the backstory of the game, in which the Gem of Immortality is shattered by the Stranger, the protagonist of ''Ultima I .

"The planet was still bound to the jewel's magic, even as it lay shattered upon the floor of Mondain's castle. For,(SIC) within each shattered remnant of the jewel, dwelled a perfect likeness of Sosaria. Thus is the world in which you are born, live, and die. Brittania(SIC), that was once Sosaria, now exists as a thousand worlds, each with its own peoples, history and destiny. This Brittania(SIC) is but one of many in the multiverse that is... ...ULTIMA ONLINE." - Intro cinematic to the game, written by Michael Morlan [http://michael-morlan.net/pages/production/prod_uo.htm]

Derived terms

* potsherd

Synonyms

* potsherd * splinter (of glass)

Verb

(en verb)

To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.

To break (something) into shards.

(online role-playing) To divide (an MMORPG) into several , or to establish a shard of one.

References

* (pottery) Shard'', in the ''Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary , Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.

Etymology 2

Noun

(-)

The plant chard.

(Dryden)