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NAVAL UNIT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A military unit that is part of a navy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("naval 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 "naval unit"):
division; naval division (a group of ships of similar type)
squadron (a naval unit that is detached from the fleet for a particular task)
Holonyms ("naval unit" is a member of...):
naval forces; navy (an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare)
