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Meanings of fundamental unit in English
In biology and chemistry, a type of entity that acts as a "building block" (e.g. an "atom" for chemical substances and "cell" for living organisms)
Synonyms
Examples for "basic unit"
Examples for "basic unit"
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Adjusted FFO for the quarter was 55 Canadian cents per basic unit.
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The basic unit of length is the nanometer: one-billionth of a meter.
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Milirem is a measurement of radiation dose and that's the basic unit.
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A second, the basic unit of time, is defined by caesium.
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The basic unit of currency in the republic was the guilder.
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A product listed in Square Market becomes what Dorsey calls an " atomic unit" of commerce.
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Patrons pledge a given amount of money every time some atomic unit of creativity is produced by a given artist.
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Hartree, also known as Hartree energy, is an atomic unit of energy named after British physicist and mathematician Douglas Hartree.
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Unit after atomic unit began flunking its tests, for stuff a lot more picayune then failing to load a bomber.
Usage of fundamental unit in English
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This Article recognises the family as the fundamental unit in society.
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Personal relationships are the fundamental unit of our society.
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The fundamental unit of each lifeform is the cell.
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And yet according to the standard paradigm they'd just be a fundamental unit -just an on or off.
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Mammy, daddy and the kids: the "natural primary and fundamental unit group of society", according to the Constitution.
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The census is the most fundamental unit of American democracy -the US constitution mandates the population count every 10 years.
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It calls the family "the natural primary and fundamental unit group of Society" but makes no attempt to define it.
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There are others for whom the scratch or line is the fundamental unit, for whom every object is most naturally expressed by an outline.
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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.
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Then, molecular analysis showed that there were no fundamental units, no beads, no string.
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It is the same for other fundamental units of human society, the family and the nation.
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They are the fundamental units of agriculture and it is a privilege to work with them.
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All, though, were built of the same fundamental units: elongated, thin cells which readily aligned themselves in semi-crystalline patterns.
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We knew that either space or time could be reduced to fundamental units and transformed into the other by a power process.
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The true randomness of this bitstream generator allows us to use them as the fundamental units of a novel neural network architecture.
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Conclusions: Classical genetics one held that genes, arranged on chromosomes like beads on a string, were the fundamental units of mutation, recombination, and heredity.