Multiunit

adj, noun

adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A residential building containing multiple units or apartments.

    ""People see what's happening and they say 'Hey, this community is coming back.' So they come to the bank for a mortgage to buy one of the smaller multiunits, or a home."

  2. 2
    A unit consisting of multiple sub-units.

    "On the other hand, if the purpose of the study is to determine the fine temporal relationships between nearby substructures (such as the olfactory glomeruli in our studies), then these multiunits must be viewed with suspicion."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Containing multiple units. not-comparable

    "These rooms are found in multiunit, multistory buildings that usually have commercial establishments at street level."

Example

More examples

"These rooms are found in multiunit, multistory buildings that usually have commercial establishments at street level."

Etymology

From multi- + unit.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.