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Definition of Air unit
1. Noun. A military unit that is part of the airforce.
Generic synonyms: Force, Military Force, Military Group, Military Unit
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Specialized synonyms: Air Division, Division, Wing, Air Group, Squadron, Flight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Air Unit
Literary usage of Air unit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baldwin on Heating: Or, Steam Heating for Buildings Revised by William James Baldwin (1908)
"... while the air unit is the equivalent of warming one cubic foot of air one degree.
The air unit, however, thus adopted, is an arbitrary iinit, ..."
2. Baldwin on Heating; Or, Steam Heating for Buildings Revised.: Or, Steam by William J Baldwin (1908)
"The air unit, however, thus adopted, is an arbitrary unit, and to be correct
should be based on warming a cubic measure of air at some constant temperature, ..."
3. Steam Heating Data by William James Baldwin (1897)
"have reduced the same to a value of 2000000 Heat Units ; the Heat Unit being the
equivalent of warming one pound of water i°, while the air unit is the ..."
4. The U. N. Role in the Persian Gulf and Iraqi Compliance with U. N. Resolutions by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"UNIKOM will have an air unit How many fixed wing aircraft will be part of the unit?
- What is the mission of these aircraft? — Will they have any have any ..."
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