unity
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
unity
n 1: an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with
nothing wanting; "the integrity of the nervous system is
required for normal development"; "he took measures to
insure the territorial unity of Croatia" [syn: {integrity},
{unity}, {wholeness}]
2: the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this
number; "he has the one but will need a two and three to go
with it"; "they had lunch at one" [syn: {one}, {1}, {I},
{ace}, {single}, {unity}]
3: the quality of being united into one [syn: {oneness},
{unity}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Unity \U"ni*ty\, n.; pl. {Unities}. [OE. unite, F. unit['e], L.
unitas, from unus one. See {One}, and cf. {Unit}.]
1. The state of being one; oneness.
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Whatever we can consider as one thing suggests to
the understanding the idea of unity. --Locks.
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Note: Unity is affirmed of a simple substance or indivisible
monad, or of several particles or parts so intimately
and closely united as to constitute a separate body or
thing. See the Synonyms under {Union}.
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2. Concord; harmony; conjunction; agreement; uniformity; as,
a unity of proofs; unity of doctrine.
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Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren
to dwell together in unity! --Ps. cxxxiii.
1.
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3. (Math.) Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities
or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to
stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines,
the radius of the circle is regarded as unity.
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Note: The number 1, when it is not applied to any particular
thing, is generally called unity.
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4. (Poetry & Rhet.) In dramatic composition, one of the
principles by which a uniform tenor of story and propriety
of representation are preserved; conformity in a
composition to these; in oratory, discourse, etc., the due
subordination and reference of every part to the
development of the leading idea or the eastablishment of
the main proposition.
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Note: In the Greek drama, the three unities required were
those of action, of time, and of place; that is, that
there should be but one main plot; that the time
supposed should not exceed twenty-four hours; and that
the place of the action before the spectators should be
one and the same throughout the piece.
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5. (Fine Arts & Mus.) Such a combination of parts as to
constitute a whole, or a kind of symmetry of style and
character.
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6. (Law) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by
several in joint tenancy.
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Note: The properties of it are derived from its unity, which
is fourfold; unity of interest, unity of title, unity
of time, and unity of possession; in other words, joint
tenants have one and the same interest, accruing by one
and the same conveyance, commencing at the same time,
and held by one and the same undivided possession.
Unity of possession is also a joint possession of two
rights in the same thing by several titles, as when a
man, having a lease of land, afterward buys the fee
simple, or, having an easement in the land of another,
buys the servient estate.
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{At unity}, at one.
{Unity of type}. (Biol.) See under {Type}.
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Syn: Union; oneness; junction; concord; harmony. See {Union}.
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from
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Unity, ME
Zip code(s): 04988
Unity, OR (city, FIPS 76250)
Location: 44.43680 N, 118.18730 W
Population (1990): 87 (43 housing units)
Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 97884
Unity, WI (village, FIPS 81850)
Location: 44.85057 N, 90.31389 W
Population (1990): 452 (166 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 54488
from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Unity, WI -- U.S. village in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 368
Housing Units (2000): 157
Land area (2000): 0.988851 sq. miles (2.561111 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.988851 sq. miles (2.561111 sq. km)
FIPS code: 81850
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 44.848191 N, 90.314970 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 54488
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Unity, WI
Unity
from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Unity, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon
Population (2000): 131
Housing Units (2000): 75
Land area (2000): 0.462862 sq. miles (1.198807 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.008009 sq. miles (0.020743 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.470871 sq. miles (1.219550 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76250
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 44.447954 N, 118.191611 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 97884
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Unity, OR
Unity
from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Unity, ME -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Maine
Population (2000): 486
Housing Units (2000): 319
Land area (2000): 1.818322 sq. miles (4.709433 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.818322 sq. miles (4.709433 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78220
Located within: Maine (ME), FIPS 23
Location: 44.619003 N, 69.336696 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 04988
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Unity, ME
Unity
from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
UNITY, estates. An agreement or coincidence of certain qualities in the
title of a joint estate or an estate in common.
2. In a joint estate there must exist four unities; that of interest,
for a joint-tenant cannot be entitled to one period of duration or quantity
of interest in lands, and the other to a different; one cannot be tenant for
life, and the other for years: that of title, and therefore their estate
must be created by one and, the same act; that of time, for their estates
must be vested at one and the same period, as well as by one and the same
title; and lastly, the unity of possession: hence joint-tenants are seised
per my et per tout, or by the half or moiety and by all: that is, each of
them has an entire possession, as well of every parcel as of the whole. 2
Bl. Com. 179-182; Co. Litt. 188.
3. Coparceners must have the unities of interest, title, and
possession.
4. In tenancies in common, the unity of possession is alone required. 2
Bl. Com. 192; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1861-83. Vide Estate in Common; Estate in
Joint-tenancy; Joint-tenants; Tenant in Common; Tenants, Joint.
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
165 Moby Thesaurus words for "unity":
accord, accordance, affinity, agape, agreement, amity,
bonds of harmony, brotherly love, calm, caritas,
cement of friendship, charity, coequality, coherence, cohesion,
coincidence, collectivity, combination, communion, community,
community of interests, compatibility, completeness, complex,
comprehensiveness, concord, concordance, concurrence, conformance,
congeniality, congruence, congruity, congruousness, consensus,
consistency, consonance, constancy, continuity, correspondence,
elementarity, embodiment, empathy, entireness, entirety,
equability, equality, equanimity, equilibrium, equivalence, esprit,
esprit de corps, eternity, evenness, exhaustiveness,
feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, frictionlessness,
fullness, fundamentality, glory, good vibes, good vibrations,
happy family, harmony, holiness, holism, homogeneity, homoousia,
identity, immutability, impartibility, inclusiveness,
indiscerptibility, indissolubility, indistinguishability,
individuality, indivisibility, infinite goodness, infinite justice,
infinite love, infinite mercy, infinite power, infinite wisdom,
infinity, infrangibility, infusibility, inseparability,
insolubility, intactness, integer, integrality, integration,
integrity, kinship, light, like-mindedness, likeness, love,
majesty, monism, monolithism, mutuality, no difference,
omnipotence, omnipotency, omnipresence, omniscience, omnisciency,
oneness, organic unity, peace, persistence, pervasiveness,
plainness, purity, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity,
resemblance, sameness, self-identity, selfhood, selfness,
selfsameness, severity, sharing, similarity, similitude,
simpleness, simplicity, singleness, singularity, solidarity,
solidity, sovereignty, stability, starkness, steadfastness,
steadiness, sympathy, symphony, synonymity, synonymousness,
synonymy, team spirit, thoroughness, total approach, totality,
ubiquity, unadulteration, unanimity, understanding, unification,
uniformity, union, uniqueness, unison, uniting, universality,
unmixedness, unruffledness, unsophistication, whole, wholeness
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