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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Uniformity \U`ni*form"i*ty\, n. [L. uniformitas: cf. F. uniformit['e].]
The quality or state of being uniform; freedom from variation or difference; resemblance to itself at all times; sameness of action, effect, etc., under like conditions; even tenor; as, the uniformity of design in a poem; the uniformity of nature.
Consistency; sameness; as, the uniformity of a man's opinions.
Similitude between the parts of a whole; as, the uniformity of sides in a regular figure; beauty is said to consist in uniformity with variety.
Continued or unvaried sameness or likeness.
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Conformity to a pattern or rule; resemblance, consonance, or agreement; as, the uniformity of different churches in ceremonies or rites.
Act of Uniformity (Eng. Hist.), an act of Parliament, passed in 1661, prescribing the form of public prayers, administration of sacraments, and other rites of the Established Church of England. Its provisions were modified by the ``Act of Uniformity Amendment Act,'' of 1872.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Old French uniformite (14c.) or directly from Late Latin uniformitatem (nominative uniformitas) "uniformity," from Latin uniformis (see uniform (adj.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being uniform, alike and lacking diversity. 2 The absence of alternativism.
WordNet
n. a condition in which everything is regular and unvarying
the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom) [syn: uniformness] [ant: nonuniformity]
Wikipedia
Uniformity may refer to:
- Distribution uniformity, a measure of how uniformly water is applied to the area being watered
- Religious uniformity, the promotion of one state religion, denomination, or philosophy to the exclusion of all other religious beliefs
- Retention uniformity, a concept in thin layer chromatography
- Tire uniformity, a concept in vehicle technology
- Uniformity (chemistry), a measure of the homogeneity of a substance's composition or character
- Uniformity (complexity), a concept in computational complexity theory
- Uniformity (philosophy), the concept that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe now have always operated in the universe
- Uniformity (topology), a concept in the mathematical field of topology
- Uniformity of motive, a concept in astrobiology
Usage examples of "uniformity".
And if the other dogmas of that system be contained in a sacred book, such as the Alcoran, or be determined by any visible authority, like that of the Roman pontiff, speculative reasoners naturally carry on their assent, and embrace a theory, which has been instilled into them by their earliest education, and which also possesses some degree of consistence and uniformity.
Anglicanism resorts to a grand pageant of uniformity, beneath which, however, lurk Anglo-Catholicism, Evangelicism, and Liberalism, by no means uniform in faith.
The temperature is the simplest guide to the amount of fermentation taking place, and the uniformity of the temperature in all parts of the mass is desirable, as showing that all parts are fermenting evenly.
Tolland some slack, but the katabatic pulled on with relentless uniformity.
The surface of paper sized in the ordinary way, or letter paper, no longer presents with certain reactions, the same uniformity where it has been either accidently moistened in several places by various liquids, or left in contact for a certain time with agents capable of removing or destroying the characters which have been traced on it with ink.
Also bankruptcy legislation must be uniform, but the uniformity required is geographic, not personal.
In some ways, he was the most powerful Hortator here, because the special psychological uniformity of the Invariants, the so-called Protocols of Sanity, ensured that all the populations of the Cities in Space would follow his lead.
Workthat is may be disfigured or misformed, by taking out some pieces, or adding mishapen parts thereto, or blind Ignorance may not perceive that Uniformity, or Composure thereof.
A taxing statute does not fail of the prescribed uniformity because its operation and incidence may be affected by differences in State laws.
Kundera, the strategies by which Soviet discourse imposes its centralization and uniformity on Czech history are those that structuralist and deconstructionist discourses impose upon chosen texts.
The mass-ideals of noise, excitement, mental uniformity, and hurrying movement which the Americans share with these unassimilated alien groups do not represent any kind of assimilation, because these traits themselves are antinational, demoralizing, destructive of individuality, State, People, Race.
So the Bayesian calculation always comes down against the truth of the testimony, and in favour of the uniformity of nature.
The per curiam opinion does seek to distinguish people from things, but as pointed out in Chapter 2, even with regard to decisions made by people, more uniformity can always be achieved.
Kundera, the strategies by which Soviet discourse imposes its centralization and uniformity on Czech history are those that structuralist and deconstructionist discourses impose upon chosen texts.
It never occurred to me that I was doing anything or favoring anything to reduce to a dead uniformity all the local institutions of the various States.