jednostka

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jednostka

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From jedność +‎ -ka.^[1][2] First attested in 1801.^[3]

• IPA^(key): /jɛdˈnɔst.ka/

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• Rhymes: -ɔstka
• Syllabification: jed‧nost‧ka

jednostka f (related adjective jednostkowy)

1. (literary) individual, individuum, entity, body (person considered alone)

   Synonym: indywiduum

2. (by extension) individual, individuum (single representative of a species)

   Synonym: osobnik

3. unit (organized group comprising people in uniform who perform particular tasks)
   1. (military) unit (group of soldiers)

      Synonym: oddział

4. unit (headquarters of such a group)
5. (bureaucracy) unit (independent branch of a public institution established to conduct a specific type of activity)
6. (military) unit (individual ship)

   Synonym: statek

7. (metrology, sciences) unit (standard measure of a quantity)
8. unit (the number one)

   Synonym: jedynka

• → Kashubian: jednostka
• → Silesian: jednostka

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), jednostka is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 33 times in scientific texts, 41 times in news, 33 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 117 times, making it the 516th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[4]

• jednostka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• jednostka in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “jednostka”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “jednostka”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “jednostka”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 161