The basic unit in the church, of whatever denominational polity, is always the congregation.

The identification of the basic unit of religious organization -- the parish or congregation -- with a residential area is self-defeating in a modern metropolis, for it simply means the closing of an iron trap on the outreach of the Christian fellowship and the transmutation of mission to co-optation.

The atom is a basic unit of matter that consists of a dense central nucleus surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons.

of atoms, in the modern sense of the basic unit of a chemical element.

In predicted fire the basic geospatial data of range, angle of sight and azimuth between a fire unit and its target was produced and corrected for variations from the ' standard conditions '.

The use of 8-bit codes for digital telephony also caused 8-bit data octets to be adopted as the basic data unit of the early Internet.

The C and C ++ programming languages, for example, define byte as an " addressable unit of data storage large enough to hold any member of the basic character set of the execution environment " ( clause 3. 6 of the C standard ).

The cell is the basic structural and functional unit of all known living organisms.

Conflict-driven solvers augment the basic DPLL search algorithm with efficient conflict analysis, clause learning, non-chronological backtracking ( aka backjumping ), as well as " two-watched-literals " unit propagation, adaptive branching, and random restarts.

The atom is the basic unit of chemistry.

A central processing unit ( CPU ), also referred to as a central processor unit, is the hardware within a computer system which carries out the instructions of a computer program by performing the basic arithmetical, logical, and input / output operations of the system.

* Cell ( biology ), the functional basic unit of life

* Cell, the basic unit of Flash memory

* Cell, a basic unit of a cellular automaton

In the 1960s and 1970s the term radical psychology was used by psychologists to denote a branch of the field which rejected conventional psychology's focus on the individual as the basic unit of analysis and sole source of psychopathology.

Much faster than the PDP-9 even in basic form, the PDP-15 also included a floating point unit and a separate input / output processor for further performance gains.

The basic unit was a battalion of 642 men.

The word is also used in Buddhist phenomenology as a term roughly equivalent to phenomenon, a basic unit of existence and / or experience.

The angle scale is absolute, and Euclid uses the right angle as his basic unit, so that, e. g., a 45-degree angle would be referred to as half of a right angle.

The photon is the quantum of the electromagnetic interaction, and is the basic " unit " or constituent of all forms of EMR.

* An object-oriented program structure in which a class serves as the basic unit of decomposition.

The basic unit was the cumann ( branch ) which were then grouped into comhairle ceantair ( district branch ) and a comhairle dáil ceantair ( constituency branch ) in every constituency.

* Roman legion, the basic military unit of the ancient Roman army

In the International System of Units ( SI ), the basic unit of length is the meter and is now defined in terms of the speed of light.

During the Second World War, a few kilns were built with a basic timber framing and clad in corrugated iron ( Crittenden Farm, Matfield ).

There were three basic modules: a framing module of 2X4's with two horizontal 2X4's spaced 30 inches apart between the top and bottom of the module ; a window module of the same dimensions as the framing module but divided into 4 equally sized section of glass from top to bottom ; a " half-module " where the upper half of a framing module was divided into two section of glass, where on section of the glass was framed and hinged to swing open.

A local home builder ( sometimes two builders ) and community volunteers begin basic work ( electrical, plumbing, roofing, and, if the house is demolished, framing a new one ) while the design team begins designing the creative aspects of the house.

In GSM cellular networks, the Abis channel that connects the Base Transceiver Station ( BTS ) and Base Station Controller ( BSC ) is an E1 link with several framing alternatives, all of which have a basic superframe duration of 20 milliseconds.

* STM-1, Synchronous Transport Module, the basic rate of transmission of the SDH ITU-T fiber optic network

The basic format of a SONET / SDH signal allows it to carry many different services in its virtual container ( VC ), because it is bandwidth-flexible.

The STM-1 ( Synchronous Transport Module, level 1 ) frame is the basic transmission format for SDH — the first level of the synchronous digital hierarchy.

SDHC acts as an intermediate in the basic SDH enzyme action:

The STM-1 frame is the basic transmission format for SDH ( Synchronous Digital Hierarchy ).

The content is not the same, however: rather than individual security, it is the security and continuing existence of an `` ideological group '' -- those in the `` free world '' -- that is basic.

Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.

The basic premise of all mystery stories is that the distinction between good and bad coincides with the distinction between legal and illegal.

Furthermore, the network in Figure 3 is only the basic net through which other networks pertaining to logistics and the like are interlaced.

We are reminded, however, that freedom of thought and discussion, the unfettered exchange of ideas, is basic under our form of government.

The basic truth in the reactionary response is to be found in its realistic assumption of the primacy of the real over the ideational.

When the reactionary response is thus bolstered by an intellectual defense, the characteristics of that defense are explicable only in terms of the basic attitudes of unanalyzed reaction.

The maturity in this point of view lies in its recognition that no basic problem is ever solved without being clearly understood.

The strongest appeal of the Copernican formulation consisted in just this: ideally, the justification for dealing with special problems in particular ways is completely set out in the basic ' rules ' of the theory.

This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.

There is a clear relationship between their educational evaluations and their basic pattern of general values.

There is impressive consistency between specific occupational preferences and the student's basic conception of what is for him a good way of life.

Now the basic question to be asked in this situation is what motivates the manipulators, that is, what are their values??

Yet this basic condition of outlawry and anarchy is not the work of Katanga.

Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.

In still others which are barely on the threshold of the transition into modernity, the decade can bring significant progress in launching the slow process of developing their human resources and their basic services to the point where an expanded range of developmental activities is possible.

The basic mapping phase of the program has been completed and the inventory phase is scheduled for completion July 1, 1961.

Since the validity of all subsequent planning depends on the accuracy of the basic inventory information, great care is being taken that the inventory is as complete as possible.