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- Englishunit
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
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- English todayunital
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Today it means: (of an algebra) containing a multiplicative identity element (or unit), i.e. an element 1 with the property 1x=x1=x for all elements x of the algebra. Full definition →
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