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unity

UK/ˈjuːnɪti/US/ˈjunɪti/
nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #5,126 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: unities

Unity is the state of being joined into one whole. National unity, a show of unity, unity of purpose.

In politics it is what parties display before elections and lose afterwards. Unity of purpose means everybody wanting the same thing. In art and design, unity means the parts holding together as one composition, which is a real technical criterion. In mathematics, unity means the number one. Note unite, unify, unified; and that unity and united are used constantly in the names of countries, parties and football clubs.

Definitions of unity

  1. 1noununityThe state of being joined into one whole.B2

    “The president called for national unity after the disaster.”

unity is a state of oneness.

Where it comes from

Latin unitas comes from unus, one — the same root as unit, union, universe and onion, which was named for its single bulb of many layers.

  1. Middle English

    unite

  2. English, today

    unity

Built from

  • ūnus · Latin — one

From Middle English unite. From Middle English unite, from Anglo-Norman -, Old French unité, from Latin ūnitās, from ūnus (“one”) + noun of state suffix -itās, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European óynos (“one, single”), hence distantly related to one and an. by surface analysis, unite + -y. Displaced native ānnes.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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unity in the wild

  • Roots of unity are used in many branches of mathematics, and are especially important in number theory, the theory of group characters, and the discrete Fourier transform.

    Root of unity

  • Roots of unity can be defined in any field.

    Root of unity

  • The unity of science is a thesis in philosophy of science that says that all the sciences form a unified whole.

    Unity of science

  • Early versions of the unity of science thesis can be found in ancient Greek philosophers such as Aristotle, and in the later history of Western philosophy.

    Unity of science

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the ūnus family

universe

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