For the Arclinea kitchen catalogue we used this to mean a "peninsula" type of breakfast bar or even bigger, sticking out into the middle of the room and joined to the rest of the wall base units. SUE

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Note added at 45 mins (2005-06-16 10:24:43 GMT)
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thanks Russell - the unit bit depends on the context, sometimes they are a table, or a work top, or ...!