AIR UNIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does air unit mean? 

• AIR UNIT (noun)
  The noun AIR UNIT has 1 sense:

1. a military unit that is part of the airforce

  Familiarity information: AIR UNIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AIR UNIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A military unit that is part of the airforce

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("air unit" is a kind of...):

force; military force; military group; military unit (a unit that is part of some military service)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "air unit"):

air division; division (a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings)

wing (a unit of military aircraft)

air group (a unit of the United States Air Force larger than a squadron and smaller than a wing)

squadron (an air force unit larger than a flight and smaller than a group)

flight (an air force unit smaller than a squadron)

Holonyms ("air unit" is a member of...):

air force; airforce (the airborne branch of a country's armed forces)