How to Use base unit in a Sentence

base unit

noun
  • This allows different family members to each have their own tip to use with the same base unit.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The landline base unit has two RJ-11 phone jacks at the rear, along with a hardwired power cord.
    — John R. Delaney, PC Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Russia was also able to connect the drone’s fiber-optic cable to a base unit, which was then linked to a drone operator.
    — Charbel Mallo, CNN Money, 3 May 2026
  • This base unit can be mounted on a truck or trailer, and utilizes various modules to perform a variety of road maintenance tasks.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2020
  • The horizontal base unit has five slots that can fit magnetically attachable modules.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Top-end systems cover up to 600 feet from the base unit, encompassing most of the home and the immediate outdoor areas.
    — Craig Lebrau, USA Today, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The base unit relays the signal to a monitoring agency, where a central computer is programmed to send an alert to agency personnel if a check-in signal is not received when the offender is supposed to be at home.
    — Robert S. Gable, IEEE Spectrum, 20 July 2017
  • By way of comparison, the LifeFone and LifeStation base units both offer larger reset buttons that are conveniently located on the face of the unit.
    — John R. Delaney, PC Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Frogposting, then, pits the intractably byzantine, soulless and cutthroat nature of the contemporary economy in a simple binary against what the posters envision as the green, healthy, naturalness of the Earth—framed as a joke, the base unit of online commentary.
    — Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The $349 Security Starter system comes with a base unit (ADT's equivalent of a hub), three door/window sensors, a motion sensor, and assorted yard signs and stickers.
    — John R. Delaney, PC Magazine, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Range and Connectivity Options In-home medical alert systems utilize wireless communication between the wearable help button and the base unit, making range one of the key reliability considerations.
    — Craig Lebrau, USA Today, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Because conference champions automatically qualify for March Madness, each conference has a minimum number of base units accumulated over the previous six years, plus any additional units earned from multiple schools getting bids or tournament games won.
    — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The computing system includes an Intel N97 base unit and an NVIDIA AGX Orin module, delivering 275 TOPS of AI processing.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 3 Dec. 2025

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