Science and Technology
- GNU Units, a software program for unit conversion
- Units of measurement, a standardized quantity of measurement of a physical quantity
- Enzyme unit
- Unit operation, a basic step in a chemical plant process
- Functional unit, a component of a computer system such as the CPU
- Unit of blood, a measurement in blood transfusion equal to one pint or 450 ml
- Unit of alcohol, 10 millilitres of pure ethanol in the United Kingdom
- Rack unit, a measure to describe the height of rack-mounted computer equipment
- Geological unit or rock unit, a volume of identifiable rock or ice
- In statistics:
- Unit of observation, a type of entity (e.g. person, house, neighborhood) specifying the level at which data is collected
- Unit of analysis, a type of entity (e.g. person, house, neighborhood) specifying the level at which data is analyzed
- Statistical unit, a single data point, or collection of data points grouped as a single entity, on which statistical analysis is performed
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