A cluster of men stood around a compact pole-beam laser unit aimed at the ground.
So," the hydraulics chief shrugged, "we put another unit down there.
The light laser unit had been moved out and ten huge crawler cargo carriers with van were being mover into a wide circle around the last soil moisture stake.
The replacement was bulkier than the defective unit and it was different in design.
I found that a dragon-fly, whose wings vibrate about 200 times per second, had only half the number of unit perceptions of the fly and could apparently see motion at about one inch per second but not under.
I have already referred in View One to the curious results of increasing our unit of perception by a Time Microscope, and I will now carry the investigation of this subject a step further.
Write the numbers of each unit to be added, below the names of the units, each in its proper place.
The linear unit commonly employed by surveyors is Gunter’s chain, which is 4 rods or 66 feet.
The unit of measure for surfaces is a square, each of whose sides is a linear unit.
Multiply, or divide (as the case may require) the given sum, by the equivalent of a unit in United States money.
The standard unit of Sterling Money is 1 pound or sovereign, whose value in our money is $4.
This fraction means that the unit is divided into 36 equal parts, and 28 of the parts taken.
Hence, a cubic foot, the unit of volume, is a solid body whose length, breadth, and thickness are each a linear foot.
The standard unit of length is identical with the imperial yard of Great Britain.
This unit is the one-thousandth part of a millimeter and is called the micro-millimeter or micron.
Bacteria are among the smallest of organisms, so small that it requires the highest powers of the microscope for their successful study, and the use of a special unit for their measurement.
The official unitfor tetanus antitoxin is somewhat different, since it is standardized against a standard toxin which is likewise kept at the Hygienic Laboratory.
The unit is defined as "ten times the amount of antitoxin necessary to protect a 350 g.
They have brought to light the fact that no human or social unit short of the international unit of the whole race can adequately deal with the resources of the planet.
It is concerned, not with visible objects, but with abstract truth; for numbers are pure abstractions--the true arithmetician indignantly denies that his unit is capable of division.
The unit is the world, and survey in patches may misdirect money which would have been spent differently if the whole need had been before the eyes of those who are charged with the responsibility of administration.
The unit of quantity is called the coulomb, just as a cubic foot of water may be taken as a unit of quantity for water.
The unit of resistance is called the ohm, in honor of Ohm, who made careful investigations upon this subject.
Hours, minutes, and seconds are aliquot parts of this unit convenient for use in dealing with shorter periods than a day, and the week, month, and year which we use in our calendars are multiples of the day.
For the measurement of the required wave length a tenth meter (§ 75) is the unit employed, and a scale of wave lengths expressed in this unit is presented in Fig.
If we take the mean distance of the earth from the sun as the unit of distance, and the year as the unit of time, we shall find by applying the equation to the earth's motion, C = 1.
Angles are measured in degrees, and the degree is the unit for angular measurement.
For most scientific purposes the centimeter is adopted as the unit with which to measure distances, and similarly a day is the fundamental unit for the measurement of time.
But for longer periods, extending to hundreds and thousands of days, a larger unit of time is required, and for the most part these longer units have in all ages and among all peoples been based upon astronomical considerations.
To measure any quantity we need a unit in terms of which it must be expressed.
The last line of figures shows the real distance of the planet as determined from Kepler's law, the earth's mean distance from the sun being taken as the unit for this purpose.
A person was once tried at Kingston before the late Lord Chief Justice Holt, for having two wives, where one Unit was to have been the chief evidence against him.
According as the mind variously combines its ideas the unit varies: and as the unit, so the number, which is only a collection of units, doth also vary.
In these and the like, instances it is evident the unit constantly relates to the particular draughts the mind makes of its ideas, to which it affixes names, and wherein it includes more or less as best suits its own ends and purposes.
Thus the single man, the hero, in his acts of prowess or in his readiness, may be the unit and standard in discourse.
The economic and political unit is a great household with its lord, his wife and children, clients and slaves.
Then each physical or political unit would be endowed with a character really corresponding to all its influence on the thinker.
Standing alone against infinity, a unit makes but a poor figure.
Modern medical science makes the appraisal of this unit possible through the medium of psychiatric treatment and social service research.
At Mooseheart, the great institution for dependent children, maintained by the Loyal Order of Moose, they have adopted as a standard cottageunit a one-story cottage for 16 children, with two dormitories containing eight beds each.
The number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects.
The number greater by a unit than five; the sum of three and three; six units or objects.
According to the French method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed.
According to the English method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-two ciphers annexed.
A unit of cubic measure in the metric system, being a cubic meter, or kiloliter, and equal to 35.
According to the English method, a million raised to the sixth power, or the number expressed by a unit with thirty-six ciphers annexed.
The quotient of a unit divided by seven; one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided.
The quotient of a unit divided by sixteen; one of sixteen equal parts of one whole.
The quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal parts which form a whole.
According to the method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-one ciphers annexed.
The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.
The quotient of a unit divided by sixty; one of sixty equal parts forming a whole.
But she would show them all one of these days, what could be achieved by a unit of the despised majority.
A unit of the despised majority who is thoroughly convinced of her own superfluousness.
I suppose I ought to explain that I had written a note to apologize for the mistake I had made in urging the Red Cross unit to bring me with them to France and to say I regretted the distress and trouble I must give.
Sailing upon the same vessel there chanced to be a Red Cross unit of twenty other girls who were to do canteen work among the French and American soldiers.
The Camp Fire unit looked forward to establishing a community farm in one of the ruined districts of France.
It would therefore appear as if each member of the Sunrise Camp Fire unit had arranged her life with the idea of being useful in the highest degree, except the Camp Fire guardian.
There was a medical unit with a staff of doctors, nurses and assistants, three or four newspaper and magazine men, one well-known woman writer.
However, I am afraid Yvonne will scarcely be fit for the work our Red Cross unit expects to undertake.
But isn't it wonderful that our entire Camp Fire unit is to go to France for the reclamation work?
But of course I won't annoy mother until I am sure our Camp Fire unit has a real chance of being accepted for the work in France.
But instead of speaking of this, Bettina continued: "Yes, it is extraordinary that our entire Camp Fire unit is so soon to cross over to France.
But except for one conspicuous exception, this unit of girls was noticeably older.
They were a scratch lot, from the soldier's point of view, never having been landed together as a single unit till called upon to assault the most dangerous features of the fort.
Parallel lines would be led to the rear of each brigade till quite clear, when their ends would be joined by a wire at right angles, from which headquarters could communicate with every unit at the front.
As if to make this same result more sure he never tried to win by one combined assault, wave after crashing wave, without allowing the defense to get its second wind; but let each unit taste defeat before the next came on.
At the end of May Johnston took over the command of the increasing force at Harper's Ferry, while Jackson was given the First Shenandoah Brigade, a unit soon, like himself, to be raised by service into fame.
The country is divided into 19 entire and 6 half states or cantons, which are a unit towards foreign powers, but have as much independence among themselves as each of the United States, each self-governing.
Lieutenant Gidley, of the 19th Battalion, and parties of bombers from that unit and the 20th Battalion also took part, and frustrated what might have developed into a formidable attack had the initial attempt been successful.
A wounded man sees his comrades advancing steadily within striking distance of the objective, and in perfect good-faith reports that apparently his unit has attained its objective.
Between the heroic actions in the Ypres salient in June (1st to 15th) and the commencement of our strenuous thrusts on the Somme front in mid-September, no unit of the Canadian Corps was in any major offensive operation.
While the family unit was still important, the clan and even the entire community took on new important aspects of "togetherness.
Because in most cases the mesas are sloping southward, many of these unit houses were built upon one or more terraced flats.
These types of planned communities are called "unit houses.
At the beginning of the Great Pueblo Period in the Animas Valley there may well have been a sizeable population living in scattered unit house dwellings and small villages, built largely of river cobbles and adobe mud.
The single-unit mud, slab, and jacal semisubterranean house was giving way to the huge multistoried stone and adobe structures, which were to predominate in the Great Pueblo Period 250 years later.
The unit of the social organism is not the town, for there are no towns; it is the plantation.
Unfortunately, scholars are not a unit in the exact location of the districts comprised by these names, some declaring Sumer to be in the north and Akkad in the south; others favoring the reverse position.
McDevitt had a radio in his car with which to talk to Wallops, and Steve handed him one unit of a walkie-talkie radio network.
Another unitwent to Chuck, and Steve retained one.
They put Rick's unit in the bottom of the runabout cockpit, along with Scotty's fins and mask.
Lee was that he directed a scheme for the organization of a tactical unit to be composed of 9 guns, 3 batteries of 3 guns each, to be prepared for service with the 7th Army Corps.
The result of the interview with the general was that a scheme for the organization of a tactical unit to be composed of three Gatling guns and to be employed with the cavalry division, was drawn up on the spot, under Gen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
