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subunits

subunits is the plural of subunit.

Meaning of subunit

Noun

subunit (plural subunits)

  1. Any subdivision of a larger unit.
    • The bogies are built up of welded sub-units which are stress-relieved before assembly by riveting.1961 October, “New Metropolitan Line train sets enter service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 622
  2. A protein subunit.

Phrases with subunits

Questions about subunits

What is subunits the plural of?
Subunits is the plural of subunit.

Words near subunits in the dictionary

  1. subungulates
  2. subunguligrade
  3. subuniform
  4. subunit
  5. subunitary
  6. subunits
  7. subunity
  8. subuniversal
  9. subuniverse
  10. subuniverses
  11. subuppersemilattice

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subunits (page history and authors); subunit (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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