basic unit

collocation in English

meanings of basicand unit

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basic
adjective
uk /ˈbeɪ.sɪk/ us /ˈbeɪ.sɪk/
simple and not complicated, so able to provide the base or starting point from which something ...
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unit
noun
uk /ˈjuː.nɪt/ us /ˈjuː.nɪt/
a single thing or a separate part of ...
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Examples of basic unit

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The household was the basicunit of banner social structure.#!
This is the basicunit of observation; on top of this derived notions can be defined.
In this type of framework, the basicunit of storage is whole words.
The oscil() function is the basicunit generator used by the instrument, an oscillator.
Five phenological stages of the crop formed the basicunit of time for the investigation.
It is constructed systematically with a cross-type amplifier as a basicunit.
The projections were prepared by the component method using a basicunit of 5 years.
The problem also represents the basicunit governing the behaviour of emulsions in technologically important flows.
As previously mentioned, the household was the basicunit of production, consumption and welfare.
The basicunit is a block of 500 ha (500 x 1000 m).
In alphabetic languages, the basicunit of orthography is the grapheme.
Classical timing units are replaced by, or rather conflated, with, the basicunit that represents syllable weight : the mora (m).
Our approach focuses on formal systems, and the basicunit of composition is an individual inference rule.
Early on in the project, a decision was made to use the parish as the basicunit of location.
As the basicunit of household registration and taxation, a male-headed household was to be the norm for society.
Propositions were used as a measure of story length and as the basicunit of meaning within a story.
Within each part are chapters, twenty-four in all, whose basicunit of organisation is the double-page spread.
The use of language is thus highlighted as the basicunit for a complete understanding of the linguistic system.
Performing both functions of production and reproduction, the ie eventually became the basicunit of social organization.
Feature-oriented programming is used to assemble objects; its basicunit of composition is a group of related methods.
It is £2½ million basicunit cost.
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Under the scheme, the basicunit is the individual.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
This means that the basicunit the collocational dictionary starts from is most often the noun in the case of verb-noun or adjective-noun collocations.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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