whole unit | 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 |
drive thrust driving force | the act of applying force to propel something, after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off |
jab jabbing poke poking thrust thrusting | a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow), he warned me with a jab with his finger, he made a thrusting motion with his fist |
lateral pass lateral | a pass to a receiver upfield from the passer |
stab thrust knife thrust | a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument, one strong stab to the heart killed him |
lunge straight thrust passado | (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward |
knife fight snickersnee cut-and-thrust | fighting with knives |
lateral line lateral line organ | sense organs of fish and amphibians, believed to detect pressure changes in the water |
booster booster rocket booster unit takeoff booster takeoff rocket | the first stage of a multistage rocket |
Bunker Buster Guided Bomb Unit- GBU- | a , pound laser-guided bomb that can be programmed to penetrate to a given depth before exploding, used to penetrate hardened underground facilities |
central processing unit CPU C.P.U. central processor processor mainframe | (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing, the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached |
loudspeaker speaker speaker unit loudspeaker system speaker system | electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance |
round unit of ammunition one shot | a charge of ammunition for a single shot |
semiconductor device semiconductor unit semiconductor | a conductor made with semiconducting material |
thrust bearing | a bearing designed to take thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution |
thruster | a small rocket engine that provides the thrust needed to maneuver a spacecraft |
thrust stage | a theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides |
visual display unit VDU | (British) British term for video display |
wall unit | a piece of furniture having several units that stands against one wall of a room |
unit character | (genetics) a character inherited on an all-or-none basis and dependent on the presence of a single gene |
fissure of Sylvius Sylvian fissure lateral cerebral sulcus sulcus lateralis cerebri | the deepest and most prominent of the cortical fissures, separates the frontal lobes and temporal lobes in both hemispheres |
abducens muscle lateral rectus muscle lateral rectus rectus lateralis | the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball outward |
lateral condyle | a condyle on the outer side of the lower extremity of the femur |
lateral epicondyle | epicondyle near the lateral condyle of the femur |
lateral geniculate body corpus geniculatum laterale lateral geniculate | a neural structure that serves as a processing station on the way from the retina to the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex |
lateral ventricle | either of two horseshoe-shaped ventricles one in each cerebral hemisphere, they communicate with the third ventricle via the foramen of Monro |
lateral thinking | a heuristic for solving problems, you try to look at the problem from many angles instead of tackling it head-on |
unit | a single undivided whole, an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another |
language unit linguistic unit | one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed |
thrust | verbal criticism, he enlivened his editorials with barbed thrusts at politicians |
metrical foot foot metrical unit | (prosody) a group of or syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm |
family family unit | primary social group, parents and children, he wanted to have a good job before starting a family |
unit investment trust unit trust | a regulated investment company consisting of professional managers who issue redeemable securities representing a portfolio of many different securities, you can invest in a unit investment trust for as little as $ |
administrative unit administrative body | a unit with administrative responsibilities |
coronary care unit | a hospital unit specially staffed and equipped to treat patients with serious cardiac problems |
neonatal intensive care unit NICU | an intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or seriously ill newborn |
intensive care unit ICU | a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care |
unit social unit | an organization regarded as part of a larger social group, the coach said the offensive unit did a good job, after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit |
army unit | a military unit that is part of an army |
naval unit | a military unit that is part of a navy |
air unit | a military unit that is part of the airforce |
military unit military force military group force | a unit that is part of some military service, he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men |
paramilitary paramilitary force paramilitary unit paramilitary organization paramilitary organisation | a group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops) |
Sparrow Unit | a hit squad of the New People's Army in the Philippines |
identity matrix unit matrix | a scalar matrix in which all of the diagonal elements are unity |
political unit political entity | a unit with political responsibilities |
artillery artillery unit | an army unit that uses big guns |
thrust fault overthrust fault reverse fault | a geological fault in which the upper side appears to have been pushed upward by compression |
unit building block | a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else, units of nucleic acids |
unit cell | the smallest group of atoms or molecules whose repetition at regular intervals in three dimensions produces the lattices of a crystal |