unity — Diccionario de inglés

Sustantivo

1. Oneness: the state or fact of being one undivided entity.

   Uso

   • no contable

   Sinónimos

   unionunitednessunificationunionizationintegration

   Antónimos

   disunitymultiplicitypluralitymanyness

   Ejemplos

   Near-synonyms: unification, unionization, integration

   Más ejemplos (1)

   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.

   Alan Pardew's current squad has been put together with a relatively low budget but the resolve and unity within the team is priceless.

2. Agreement; harmony.

   Uso

   • contable
   • no contable

3. A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself.

   Uso

   • contable
   • no contable

   Ejemplos

   Más ejemplos (1)

   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 [translating Einheit] out of them.

4. Any of the three classical rules of drama: unity of action (nothing should be admitted not directly relevant to the development of the plot), unity of place (the scenes should be set in the same place), and unity of time (all the events should be such as might happen within a single day).

   Uso

   • contable
   • no contable

5. The number 1 or any element of a set or field that behaves under a given operation as the number 1 behaves under multiplication.

   Uso

   • contable
   • no contable

   Ejemplos

   the cube roots of unity

6. The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.

   Uso

   • contable
   • no contable

7. The form of consensus in a Quaker meeting for business which signals that a decision has been reached. In order to achieve unity, everyone who does not agree with the decision must explicitly stand aside, possibly being recorded in the minutes as doing so.

   Uso

   • Quakerism
   • contable
   • no contable

Sustantivo

1. an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting

   Sinónimos

   integritywholeness

   Términos más generales

   state

   Ejemplos

   the integrity of the nervous system is required for normal development

   he took measures to insure the territorial unity of Croatia

2. the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number

   Sinónimos

   oneIacesingle

   Términos más generales

   digitfigure

   Ejemplos

   he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it

   they had lunch at one

3. the quality of being united into one

   Sinónimos

   oneness

   Términos más generales

   identityidenticalnessindistinguishability