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absolute unit

US/ˈæb.səˌlut ˈju.nɪt/

absolute unit noun: a unit of measurement that can be defined in terms of mass, length, and time.

Noun (1)

absolute unit (plural absolute units)

  1. A unit of measurement that can be defined in terms of mass, length, and time.

Noun (2)

absolute unit (plural absolute units)

  1. (Australia, Internet, UK, humorous) An exceptionally large or stout person.
    • Liverpool BMX president Neil Cameron said, despite the name, [Kama Kazi] is a "lovely bloke", "great with the kids" and also an "absolute unit".2006 February 15, “Sticky Beak”, in Liverpool Leader, Factiva:LIVLEA0020060215e22f00005
    Synonyms:
    big boy
  2. (broadly) Anything exceptionally large for its type.
    • In response to an already pretty embarrassing MIT Technology Review tweet calling the world’s biggest airplane an absolute unit, Musk stopped giggling into his hands just long enough to reply, “I’m an absolute unit too.”2019 April 18, Reid McCarter, “Bad news, everyone: Elon Musk has discovered the ‘absolute unit’ meme”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2019

absolute unit meaning in Tamil

absolute unit in Tamil

தனித்த அலகு, தனியலகு, தனிமான அலகு, சார்பிலா அலகு, தனி அலகு

Synonyms of absolute unit

Forms of absolute unit

pluralabsolute units

Origin of absolute unit

Compound of absolute (“independent, not relative”) + unit. Attested from the 19th century. Compare various scientific terms with prefix ab-, such as abohm.

Compounded of British colloquial senses of absolute (“utter, complete”) + unit (“physically large person”). Attested from the 2010s.

Questions about absolute unit

What does absolute unit mean?
Absolute unit means a unit of measurement that can be defined in terms of mass, length, and time.
What is absolute unit in Tamil?
Absolute unit in Tamil is தனித்த அலகு, தனியலகு, தனிமான அலகு. See Absolute unit meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is absolute unit?
Absolute unit is a noun.
How do you pronounce absolute unit?
Absolute unit is pronounced /ˈæb.səˌlut ˈju.nɪt/ (US).
What is the plural of absolute unit?
The plural of absolute unit is absolute units.

Words near absolute unit in the dictionary

  1. absolute terms
  2. absolute territory
  3. absolute threshold
  4. absolute thresholds
  5. absolute time
  6. absolute unit
  7. absolute units
  8. absolute uterine factor infertility
  9. absolute uterine infertility
  10. absolute value
  11. absolute values

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Adapted from Wiktionary: absolute unit (page history and authors); absolute unit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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