squadron vs unit

squadron

noun
  • A spaceforce unit; multiple squadrons make up an operations delta or a support garrison. 

  • A tactical air force unit; consists of at least two flights; multiple squadrons make up a group or wing (depending on particular air force). 

  • A body of infantrymen made up of several platoons, averaging from eighty to one hundred and fifty men, and led by a captain or a major. 

  • A detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer 

  • A body of cavalry comprising two companies or troops, averaging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred soldiers. 

verb
  • To divide up into squadrons. 

unit

noun
  • With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units. 

  • A physically large person. 

  • The number one. 

  • a measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household; an apartment where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storied buildings or a group of dwellings is in one or more single storey buildings, usually arranged around a driveway. 

  • A standard measure of a quantity. 

  • A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it. 

  • A member of a military organization. 

  • A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or detailed. In this meaning, also called unit of issue. 

  • A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings. 

  • The identity element, neutral element. 

  • In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of the left adjoint functor to the composition of the right adjoint functor with the left adjoint functor. 

  • Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organization. 

  • Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one. 

  • One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter). 

  • any piece of equipment, such as an appliance, power tool, stereo system, computer, tractor, or machinery. 

  • An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force. 

  • An organized group comprising people and/or equipment. 

  • A unit of alcohol. 

  • An element having an inverse, an invertible element; an associate of the unity. 

  • An item which may be sold singly. 

  • A work unit. 

  • A penis, especially a large one. 

adj
  • Having a size or magnitude of one. 

  • For each unit. 

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