Base Unit

Base unit may refer to:

  • Fundamental unit, in physics, used to form other compound units for other quantities
  • The main body of a desktop computer
  • An administrative unit of the United States Army Air Forces

Famous quotes containing the words base and/or unit:

    “When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I ... [urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enacting that all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner’s jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)