Home › Words › M › milliunitmilliunitmilliunit means A thousandth of a unit.EtymologyFrom milli- + unit.nounA thousandth of a unit.e.g.“In addition to having a relative with Type 1, people in that subgroup had insulin autoantibody levels equal to or greater than 80 milliunits per milliliter.” — 2007 November 20, Aliyah Baruchin, “Twins on a Medical Odyssey After a Diagnosis of Diabetes”, in New York Times:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.megaunit 79% match — A unit equal to one million of another unit. vs milliunit →microunit 79% match — One millionth of any standard unit (especially of an SI unit). vs milliunit →millinewton 74% match — One-thousandth of a newton. vs milliunit →millihenry 72% match — A unit of measure, one thousandth of a henry. vs milliunit →milliscale 72% match — On the scale of thousandths of some basic unit. vs milliunit →millilux 71% match — A unit of illuminance equal to one thousandth of a lux. vs milliunit →kilounit 71% match — A unit equal to one thousand of another unit. vs milliunit →milliangstrom 69% match — One thousandth (10⁻³) of an angstrom. vs milliunit →