Noun

(en noun)

Someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest.

# A member of a business or law partnership

#* 1668 July 3, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:

He Su?pends on the?e Rea?ons, that Thomas Rue'' had granted a general Di?charge to ''Adam Mu?het'', who was his Conjunct, and ''correus debendi'', after the alleadged Service, which Di?charged ''Mu?het'', and con?equently ''Houstoun his Partner .

# A spouse or domestic partner

# Someone with whom one dances in a two-person dance.

#*

He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again her partner was haled off with a frightened look to the royal circle, […].

(nautical) One of the pieces of wood comprising the framework which strengthens the deck of a wooden ship around the holes through which the mast and other fittings pass.

(Jamaica) A group financial arrangement in which each member contributes a set amount of money over a set period.

Noun

(uncountable) Oneness; the state or fact of being one undivided entity.

* 1846 ,

If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely important effect derivable from unity of impression - for, if two sittings be required, the affairs of the world interfere, and everything like totality is at once destroyed.

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, year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Alan Pardew's current squad has been put together with a relatively low budget but the resolve and unity within the team is priceless.}}

A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself.

* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Oxford 2008, p. 137:

If a single day has brought us two or more experiences suitable to initiate a dream, the dream will unite references to them both into a single whole; it obeys a compulsion to form a unity out of them .

(drama) Any of the three classical rules of drama (unity of action, unity of place, and unity of time).`

(mathematics) Any element of a set or field that behaves under a given operation as the number 1 behaves under multiplication.

(legal) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.