CHARGE PER UNIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does charge per unit mean? 

• CHARGE PER UNIT (noun)
  The noun CHARGE PER UNIT has 1 sense:

1. amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis

  Familiarity information: CHARGE PER UNIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHARGE PER UNIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

charge per unit; rate

Context example:

a 10-minute phone call at that rate would cost $5

Hypernyms ("charge per unit" is a kind of...):

charge (the price charged for some article or service)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "charge per unit"):

pay rate; rate of pay (amount of money received per unit time)

installment rate; payment rate; rate of payment; repayment rate (the amount of money paid out per unit time)

tax rate (rate used to calculate tax liability)

interest rate; rate of interest (the percentage of a sum of money charged for its use)

freight; freight rate; freightage (the charge for transporting something by common carrier)

depreciation rate; rate of depreciation (the rate at which the value of property is reduced; used to calculate tax deduction)

exchange rate; rate of exchange (the charge for exchanging currency of one country for currency of another)

excursion rate (a reduced rate for a round-trip ticket)

footage (a rate of charging by the linear foot of work done)

linage; lineage (a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted)

room rate (the rate charged daily for a hotel room)

 Context examples 

Once that problem was solved, the team found that the VS2-TiS2 electrodes could operate at a high specific capacity, or store a lot of charge per unit mass.

(Creating Better Lithium-Ion Batteries Made Possible with New Discovery, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)