Two attached homes are split into four distinct units.
Well, obviously" - so plot and sub-plot form distinct units.
As distinct units these groups were short-lived.
In modern terms, the first of these states that genes are transferred as separate and distinct units from one generation to the next.
In recent months, the company has recalled tens of thousands of artificial hips as well as several million contact lenses, made by distinct units.
Reptiles and birds have discrete adrenal glands, but the anatomical relationship is such that often the "cortex" and the "medulla" are not distinct units.
Their faunas frequently are thought of as representing not two distinct units but one, related to such a degree that a single name, Holarctic, is applied to it.
Last year, the prime minister unveiled a plan to privatise the post, starting in 2007 by splitting today's monolith into four distinct units: delivery, post-office branches, savings and insurance.
Physicists, especially those, like Smolin, who are trying to develop quantum theories of gravity, now recognize them as the natural measures of the "Planck scale" -- at which space and time may be fragmented into distinct units, much as a smooth pane of glass can be shattered into so many shards.
Time Inc. is splitting its signature magazine division in two, the latest and final piece of a broader reorganization by the new chief executive, Jack Griffin, to realign swiftly the many diffuse and distinct units within the world's largest magazine publisher.
Landform segmentation is used to divide natural and human-influenced landscapes into functionally distinct units.
