unit factor
noun
1A numerical factor by which a quantity expressed in terms of one unit must be multiplied to obtain its expression in terms of another unit.
2 Genetics (now historical ) a gene, especially one that controls the inheritance of a unit character.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Edmund Atkinson (1831–1901).
- proto-ocean
- proto-oncogene
- proto-organism
- protopapas
- proto-parent
- protopathic
- protopathic bias
- proto-patriarch
- proto-patriarchal
- protopectin
- protopectinase
- protoperithecial
- protoperithecium
- protopetroleum
- protophenomenon
- protophilic
- protophloem
- protophylic
- protophyll
- Protophyta
- protophyte
- protophytic
- protopine
- protoplanet
- protoplanetary