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unity | unify |

As a noun unity

is oneness; the state or fact of being one undivided entity.

As a proper noun Unity

is {{given name|female|from=English}}.

As a verb unify is

cause to become one; make into a unit; consolidate; merge; combine.

unity

English

(wikipedia unity)

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.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , 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.

    • Antonyms

    * (oneness) plurality, multiplicity, disunity

    Related terms

    * unique * unus

    unify

    English

    Verb

  • Cause to become one; make into a unit; consolidate; merge; combine.
  • Become one.
  • * 2008 , Eliza Mada Dalian, In Search of the Miraculous: Healing Into Consciousness , Expanding Universe Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9738773-2-8, page 91:
    • Ultimately, all frequencies unify' into an unmoving state of ''zero frequency'' or ''vacuum''. In other words, all seven sound vibrations or notes '''unify''' into ''silence''; all thought frequencies (positive and negative) '''unify''' into no-thought or ''no-mind''; and all seven colors of the rainbow '''unify into ''pure space that appears dark when it is invisible and as light when it is visible.

    Derived terms

    * unifiable * unific * unification * unifier * unificatory

    Related terms

    * unite

    Antonyms

    * divide