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Etymology

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From multi- +‎ unit.

Adjective

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multiunit (not comparable)

  1. Containing multiple units.
    • 1988 June 10, David Fremon, “Single-room housing: Can not-for-profit developers turn the tide?”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      These rooms are found in multiunit, multistory buildings that usually have commercial establishments at street level.

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Noun

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multiunit (plural multiunits)

  1. A residential building containing multiple units or apartments.
    • 1988 April 29, Ben Joravsky, “The impossible bank: South Shore, a model mixture of capitalism and community development”, in Chicago Reader:
      "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. A unit consisting of multiple sub-units.
    • 2004, Methods in Insect Sensory Neuroscience[2], →ISBN, page 406:
      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.