UNIT

UNIT, or UNified Intelligence Taskforce (formerly United Nations Intelligence Taskforce) is a fictional military organisation from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, Torchwood, and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Operating under the auspices of the United Nations, its purpose is to investigate and combat paranormal and extraterrestrial threats to the Earth. In the original Doctor Who series, several UNIT personnel (such as the Brigadier) played a major role in the programme.

Unit may refer to:

• Unit of measurement, a definite magnitude of a physical quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law
• Astronomical unit, a unit of length roughly between the Earth and the Sun
• Blood unit, a measurement in blood transfusion is approximately 470ml
• English units, a historical units of measurement used in England up to 1824
• Enzyme unit, a measurement of active enzyme in a sample
• Equivalent (chemistry), a unit of measurement used in chemistry and biology
• Geological unit or rock unit, a volume of identifiable rock or ice
• GNU Units, a software program for unit conversion
• International unit, a unit of measurement for nutrients and drugs
• Natural unit, a physical unit of measurement
• Statistical unit, a data point on which statistical analysis is performed
• Unit testing, a method by which individual units of source code
• Unit, a vessel or section of a chemical plant or other industrial plant where a step in a production process called a unit operation takes place
• Central processing unit, the electronic circuitry within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program