Meanings of fundamental unit in English

This Article recognises the family as the fundamental unit in society.

Personal relationships are the fundamental unit of our society.

The fundamental unit of each lifeform is the cell.

And yet according to the standard paradigm they'd just be a fundamental unit -just an on or off.

Mammy, daddy and the kids: the "natural primary and fundamental unit group of society", according to the Constitution.

The census is the most fundamental unit of American democracy -the US constitution mandates the population count every 10 years.

It calls the family "the natural primary and fundamental unit group of Society" but makes no attempt to define it.

There are others for whom the scratch or line is the fundamental unit, for whom every object is most naturally expressed by an outline.

I shall argue that the fundamental unit of selection, and therefore of self-interest, is not the species, nor the group, nor even, strictly, the individual.

Then, molecular analysis showed that there were no fundamental units, no beads, no string.

It is the same for other fundamental units of human society, the family and the nation.

They are the fundamental units of agriculture and it is a privilege to work with them.

All, though, were built of the same fundamental units: elongated, thin cells which readily aligned themselves in semi-crystalline patterns.

We knew that either space or time could be reduced to fundamental units and transformed into the other by a power process.

The true randomness of this bitstream generator allows us to use them as the fundamental units of a novel neural network architecture.

Conclusions: Classical genetics one held that genes, arranged on chromosomes like beads on a string, were the fundamental units of mutation, recombination, and heredity.