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multiunit

multiunit adjective: containing multiple units.

Adjective

multiunit (not comparable)

  1. Containing multiple units.
    • These rooms are found in multiunit, multistory buildings that usually have commercial establishments at street level.1988 June 10, David Fremon, “Single-room housing: Can not-for-profit developers turn the tide?”, in Chicago Reader

Noun

multiunit (plural multiunits)

  1. A residential building containing multiple units or apartments.
    • "People see what's happening and they say 'Hey, this community is coming back.' So they come to the bank for a mortgage to buy one of the smaller multiunits, or a home.1988 April 29, Ben Joravsky, “The impossible bank: South Shore, a model mixture of capitalism and community development”, in Chicago Reader
  2. A unit consisting of multiple sub-units.
    • On the other hand, if the purpose of the study is to determine the fine temporal relationships between nearby substructures (such as the olfactory glomeruli in our studies), then these multiunits must be viewed with suspicion.2004, Methods in Insect Sensory Neuroscience, →ISBN, page 406

Forms of multiunit

pluralmultiunits

Origin of multiunit

From multi- + unit.

Questions about multiunit

What does multiunit mean?
Multiunit means containing multiple units.
What part of speech is multiunit?
Multiunit can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near multiunit in the dictionary

  1. multiubiquitin
  2. multiubiquitinated
  3. multiubiquitination
  4. multiubiquitylation
  5. multiunion
  6. multiunit
  7. multiunities
  8. multiunits
  9. multiunity
  10. multiusage
  11. multiuse

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