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A subunit is a smaller unit that is part of a bigger unit. You can find subunits inside a company (a small team inside a department), inside a machine (a small part inside a bigger part), or inside science (a protein is often made of several subunits). It's a plain, technical-sounding word — people use it in business, biology, and engineering more than in everyday chat.
次單位、子單位
組成sub- ('under, smaller part of') + unit ('one whole thing') = a smaller unit under a bigger one.
同家族的字
- unitsubunit is simply a smaller unit inside a bigger unit
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
subunitnoun/sʌbˈjuːnɪt/
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Any subdivision of a larger unit.
- The bogies are built up of welded sub-units which are stress-relieved before assembly by riveting.
- Interchange manipulation comparisons showed that all subunits are still active, if at slightly lower rates.
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biochemistrybiologychemistryA protein subunit.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。