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Distinct component of something bigger
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subunit
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SubUnit is a streaming protocol for test results. It allows communication between unit tests and a test harness . Originally developed for unit testing in 2005 by Robert Collins. Subunit comes with command line filters to process a SubUnit stream and language ...
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n. 1 Any subdivision of a larger unit 2 (context biochemistry English) A protein subunit
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n. a monetary unit that is valued at a fraction (usually one hundredth) of the basic monetary unit [syn: fractional monetary unit ]
Usage examples of subunit.
The antipersonnel system subunits launched in unison, flying in precise formation for 1.
When the subunits fell back to the ground, the impact automatically rearmed them for the next jump.
He talked for a while about Vlad's notion of holons, which were organic units that had subunits and also were subunits of greater holons, each level combining to create the next one up in emergent fashion, all the way up and down the great chain of being.
The necessary cooling mechanism to maintain subunits of Elephant below 2 Kelvins is unclear.
Even the simplest bacterium has over a thousand ‘small’ molecules — sugars, amino acids, fatty acids — and another thousand or two thousand macromolecules — the different proteins and other polymeric chains — that are hundreds of times more complex than the subunits.
So I recorded what happened when I tried it again, and this time installed a natural language trace program to record all the manager's commands to the other subunits.