Find the word definition

Crossword clues for unitary

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unitary
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
authority
▪ In a statement Mr Gould said Labour was committed to unitary authorities.
▪ It wants a unitary authority and it wants it to be based upon its present framework.
▪ That is ironic given Labour's supposed support for the concept of unitary authorities which the Government are pursuing.
▪ They may recommend a structure based on unitary authorities or the present two-tier arrangements.
▪ The new unitary authorities there will be known as county councils.
▪ We are predisposed towards unitary authorities.
▪ In the large conurbations, the creation of unitary authorities has required new quangos and joint boards to handle such issues.
▪ We believe that there are strong arguments in favour of unitary authorities.
state
▪ In unitary states, governments must evaluate the trade-off between higher taxes and higher welfare benefits.
▪ More than 70 percent of the current countries are unitary states.
▪ The major advantage of a unitary state is the presence of clear, hierarchical authority.
system
▪ We will reform principal local councils into a unitary system based on natural communities and the wishes of local people.
▪ This supports the presence of distinct primary and secondary memory stores rather than a unitary system.
▪ The Royal Commission had recommended a regional tier as a necessary complement to a unitary system of local authorities.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Both authors' work has been combined into a unitary whole.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Arbiter theorists also recognize that liberal democratic states vary greatly in their internal organization between federal and unitary forms.
▪ Being defined in terms of tension or paradox, ambiguity's potential diversity was restored to some sort of unitary wholeness.
▪ It wants a unitary authority and it wants it to be based upon its present framework.
▪ More than 70 percent of the current countries are unitary states.
▪ The degree to which the entire godhead is evoked as a unitary spiritual conception depends upon the circumstances.
▪ The smallest metropolitan county had, therefore, a population approximately double that of the largest unitary authority.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unitary

Unitary \U"nit*a*ry\, a.

  1. Of or pertaining to a unit or units; relating to unity; as, the unitary method in arithmetic.

  2. Of the nature of a unit; not divided; united.

    Unitary theory (Chem.), the modern theory that the molecules of all complete compounds are units, whose parts are bound together in definite structure, with mutual and reciprocal influence on each other, and are not mere aggregations of more or less complex groups; -- distinguished from the dualistic theory.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unitary

1847, "characterized by unity or uniformity;" 1865, "of or relating to a unit;" see unit + -ary.

Wiktionary
unitary

a. 1 Having the quality of oneness. 2 (context government English) Relating to a system of government in which sovereign power is concentrated in a single body instead of being shared or possessed by more local bodies. 3 (context mathematics English) Pertaining to a unit. n. 1 (context UK English) A unitary council 2 (context mathematics English) A unitary operator

WordNet
unitary
  1. adj. relating to or characterized by or aiming toward unity; "the unitary principles of nationalism"; "a unitary movement in politics"

  2. of or pertaining to or involving the use of units; "a unitary method was applied"; "established a unitary distance on which to base subsequent calculations"

  3. characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is held by one central authority; "a unitary as opposed to a federal form of government" [ant: federal]

  4. having the indivisible character of a unit; "a unitary action"; "spoke with one voice" [syn: one(a)]

Wikipedia
Unitary

Unitary may refer to:

  • Unitary construction, in automotive design a common term for unitary body / chassis construction
    • Unitary as chemical weapons opposite of Binary
  • Unitarianism, in Christian doctrine, the belief in a "unitary God" as opposed to the concept of the Trinity
    • Unitarian Universalism (sometimes called "Unitarianism"), an interfaith church which draws its name from an interfaith concept of "unitary God"
  • types of political regions
    • Unitary state
    • Unitary authority
  • Unitary enterprise, a type of government-owned corporation in Russia and Belarus
  • Unitary executive theory, a theory of American constitutional law

Usage examples of "unitary".

Without underestimating these real and important lines of continuity, however, we think it is important to note that what used to be conflict or competition among several imperialist powers has in important respects been replaced by the idea of a single power that overdetermines them all, structures them in a unitary way, and treats them under one common notion of right that is decidedly postcolonial and postimperialist.

He has no difficulty presuming that Islam is a unitary phenomenon, unlike any other religion or civilization, and thereafter he shows it to be antihuman, incapable of development, self-knowledge, or objectivity, as well as uncreative, unscientific, and authoritarian.

The Rochesterians maintained that nature was dominated by a polarity of life or a unitary intelligence, but they kept the freethinking creed of social responsibility espoused by the original founders of Scientific Pantheism.

Whereas the Hobbesian hypothesis emphasizes the contractual process that gives rise to a new unitary and transcendental supranational power, the Lockean hypothesis focuses on the counterpowers that animate the constitutive process and support the supranational power.

Social subjects are at the same time producers and products of this unitary machine.

Aspects of the unitary phenomenon of the change in cellular properties and connections that occurs in learning can be meaningfully described in any of my proffered languages, but the full understanding of the process demands that we use them all.

They may be invoked to privilege the personal, to protect us from a crassly reductionist biology - at its worst, vulgar sociobiology - but such attempts at privilege merely serve to harden the resolve of biological reductionists, and to encourage the fragmentation of our understanding of what can ultimately only be understood as a unitary world.

Quenya, unlike English, does have a true perfect tense a unitary form of the verb that expresses this meaning, without circumlocutions and extra verbs.

In any case, the groups ny, ly, ry, ty and qu (for cw) must be counted as either long consonants or consonant clusters for the purpose of stress (see below) though it is also clear that sometimes they must be analyzed as single, unitary consonants.

I hoped that the fifth Savior would be that: splitting the bipolarities and emerging as a unitary thing.

Diphthongs: In addition to the "basic", unitary vowel-sounds discussed above (what linguists would call the monophthongs), we have the diphthongs combinations of two basic vowels that are run together into one syllable, in many ways behaving like a unitary vowel for the purpose of word-building: The Quenya diphthongs are ai, au, eu, iu, oi, and ui.

Probably w merged with the g or k preceding it: The combinations gw, kw are evidently best taken as unitary sounds, labialized versions of g and k (that is, g or k pronounced with poised lips look up Lesson One again).

These are just digraphs denoting unitary consonants: ¤ What is spelt hl, hr was originally unvoiced l, r.

Lacking linguistic markers, our present line of investigation relies on attempts to identify the “words” (or lexically unitary parts of speech) by analyzing such traits as time depth and sound diversity, and to categorize them in the Bu”hlerian three-modality functional model (expression, arousal and description).

A Jophur instinctively knows-as most unitary beings do not-that it is possible to blend and mix and match disparate components to make a new composite being.