(healthcare) An area for patients who require more intensive observation, treatment and nursing care than would be usually provided on a general ward. A standard of care between the general ward and full intensive care.

plural of visual display unit

(computer hardware) A microprocessor that performs floating-point arithmetic. In older models of computer the FPU was not integrated into the central processing unit, but rather as a coprocessor if included at all.

plural of floating-point unit

A terminal node in phylogenetic analysis; an organism.

An internal node in phylogenetic analysis; an inferred ancestral organism.

plural of K-9 unit

plural of arithmetic logic unit

plural of British thermal unit

plural of atomic mass unit