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 |