Unification
noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 The act or process of unifying. countable, uncountable
"The route between Melbourne and Albury is one of the first scheduled, under the great Australian gauge unification scheme, for conversion to 4 ft. 8½ in., and this will permit through running between Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane."
- 2 the act of making or becoming a single unit wordnet
- 3 The state of being unified. countable, uncountable
"Chinese domination in Manchuria was revived after the unification of China by the Sui Dynasty in a.d. 590, though this could not be called entirely complete because the Kaokouli kingdom could not be subjugated."
- 4 an occurrence that involves the production of a union wordnet
- 5 An algorithmic process of solving equations between symbolic expressions. countable, uncountable
"For any two terms or formulas without quantifiers X and Y, the following holds. (i) The unification algorithm UNIF#95;1, applied to X, Y, terminates after a finite number of steps. (ii) #92;#123;X,Y#92;#125; is unifiable iff UNIF#95;1 so indicates upon termination. Moreover, the substitution σ then available as output is a most general unifier of #92;#123;X,Y#92;#125;."
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- 6 the state of being joined or united or linked wordnet
Example
More examples"This extraordinary increase is explained by the speedy economic unification which took place during the same period."
Etymology
Either: * from unify + -ification (suffix forming nouns denoting acts or processes whereby subjects become something else); or * borrowed from French unification; or * borrowed from Italian unificazione.
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