Noun

(en noun)

A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group.

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* F. W. Robertson

There are many things which a soldier will do in his plain clothes which he scorns to do in his uniform .

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Phonetic equivalent for the letter U in the ICAO spelling alphabet, informally known as the NATO phonetic alphabet.

A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective).

* 1996 , S. J. Rozan, Concourse , Macmillan, ISBN 0-312-95944-3, page 265,

Skeletor held the gun against Speedo’s head, held Speedo between himself and the cops who stood, motionless and futile, where they’d stopped. Robinson, Lindfors, Carter, three uniforms and I watched helpless as Skeletor, dragging Speedy with him, inched out the gate, started backing down the hill.

* 2001 , Christine Wiltz, The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld , Da Capo Press, ISBN 0-306-81012-3, page 113,

Four men flew out of it, three uniforms and one in what appeared to be an English riding outfit—boots, whip, the whole nine yards. He called out, “I’m the superintendent of police.”

* 2004 , , Penny Dreadful , MacAdam/Cage Publishing, ISBN 1-931561-81-8, page 81,

Eyes to the front now and there was the body, a lump of black and brown. Moon counted three uniforms and a photographer, the medical examiner and his assistant.

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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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.