Sentence examples for called a unit from inspiring English sources
In crystallography such a repeated unit is called a unit cell.
The product traded on the exchange is called a unit license right, a contract that allows the holder to use the underlying technology a certain number of times.
Programming happens by first creating a test for a unit of functionality (usually called a unit test).
If there exists some (ein E) such that (ex =xe=x) for each (xin E) then e is called a unit (i.e., a multiplicative identity) of E.
An open-ended fund (what the British called a unit trust) redeems any and all customers who want out, at net asset value (minus, in a few cases, a redemption fee).
A Banach algebra (mathcal{A}) is commutative if (ab=ba) for all (a, binmathcal{A}); it is unital if there is (1inmathcal{A}) such that (1a=a=a1) for all (ainmathcal{A}) and such an element is called a unit.
If the wild back garden is a kind of memory theatre for Dench, the theatre itself puts her in touch with her family, which she calls "a unit of tremendous encouragement".
(Actually, there are rumors that the deodorant was roll-on, but what do you call a unit of roll-on deodorant? Is it a tube? A shot? A canister? Yeah, I don't know either, so I went with stick).
As with the MEMBRANE, each unit of SURFACE function is represented by a container object, called a SURFACE UNIT, one per grid space.
Workers there are now finishing a $50 million structure, called a topping unit, to produce diesel fuel for 10 new turbine-generators.
Stephen K. West, a former outside counsel to the Investment Company Institute, the fund industry trade association, proposed what he called a "managed unit trust" several years ago.
