The phrase "abstract unit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to theoretical concepts, mathematics, or discussions about components of a system that are not physically tangible.
Example: "In our analysis, we will consider the abstract unit as a fundamental building block of the theoretical framework."
Alternatives: "conceptual unit" or "theoretical unit".
"The metric system forced people to separate the measure from the activity altogether and deal with an abstract unit," he writes.
Whereas Bloomfield took the morpheme to be an actual segment of a word, others defined it as being a purely abstract unit, and the term morph was introduced to refer to the actual word segments.
Here the term memory cell is not used in the strict meaning of one single cell but as an abstract unit of memory responses, such as different cells specific for different epitopes of the same pathogen or different types of memory cells.
You may also think about O*o as if they were each squares and the smaller square was unit inches or square inches; in that case, multiplying the larger square (space) by the smaller one (an abstract unit) would result in the larger space being measurable in terms of abstract inches, all of which are zeroes, not things.
Most combine a small bird form with large volumetric abstract units.
As of now, most economists measure utility in American dollars, but back in the day they used utils — abstract units of utility — to measure the amount of happiness you'd get out of a given purchase.
Simply put, the animals are run down the line of an industrial slaughterhouse as abstract units of production; there is very little difference there between how the animals are "processed" and how a widget is produced.
Phonemes are abstract units of sound, defined as the smallest units in a language that can serve to distinguish between the meaning of a pair of minimally different words, a so-called minimal pair.
As we will review below, introductory biology textbooks do not illustrate how natural selection works at the molecular level; genes are treated as abstract units of inheritance.
For the base layer, the scheme encrypts VCL (video coding layer) NALU (Network Abstract Layer Unit) into either SEI Supplement Enhancement Information NALULU or PACSI NALU.
In linguistics, a diaphoneme or diaphone is an abstract phonological unit that identifies a correspondence between related sounds of two or more varieties.
