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Definition: Uniformity |
UniformityNoun1. A condition in which everything is regular and unvarying. 2. The quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "uniformity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
Synonym: UniformitySynonym: uniformness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: nonuniformity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agreement | Conformity; conformance; uniformity; consonance, consentaneousness, consistency; congruity, congruence; keeping; congeniality; correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union. |
Frequency | Regularity, uniformity, constancy, clock-work precision; punctuality; (exactness); even tenor; system; routine; (custom); formula; rule; (form, regulation); keynote, standard, model; precedent; (prototype); conformity. |
Order | Noun: order, regularity, uniformity, symmetry, lucidus ordo; music of the spheres. |
Similarity | Repetition; sameness; (identity); uniformity; isogamy. |
Symmetry | Symmetry, shapeliness, finish; beauty; proportion, eurythmy, uniformity, parallelism; bilateral symmetry, trilateral symmetry, multilateral symmetry; centrality. |
Uniformity | Noun: uniformity; homogeneity, homogeneousness; consistency; connaturality, connaturalness; homology; accordance; conformity; agreement; consonance, uniformness. regularity, constancy, even tenor,.routine; monotony. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Dwight David Eisenhower | May we know unity - without uniformity. |
Francis Bacon | Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. |
Jean Paul Richter | Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | National differences and antagonisms between peoples are daily more and more vanishing, owing to the development of the bourgeoisie, to freedom of commerce, to the world-market, to uniformity in the mode of production and in the conditions of life corresponding thereto. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | They recognise that differences of climate, habits, and customs, of economic opportunity and industrial tradition, make strict uniformity in the conditions of labour difficult of immediate attainment. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Also, there was no uniformity of prices even in case of branded products and the prices would vary from retailer to retailer. (references) | |
It is important to take into consideration that in Italy, the uniformity in application of standards may vary according to the region, further complicating the certification process. (references) | ||
Economic History | Sweden | There is a high degree of uniformity in the Swedish hospital organization. (references) |
Greece | US high quality almonds are developing a market in Greece as a snack food, highly regarded for quality and uniformity. (references) | |
New Zealand | In interpreting common law, the courts have been concerned with preserving uniformity with common law as interpreted in the United Kingdom. (references) | |
Political Economy | ITALY | In addition, in some sectors such as pollution control, the uniformity in application of standards may vary according to region, further complicating the certification process. (references) |
CHINA | While foreign businesses selling goods into China at times have benefited from lower import duty rates, lack of uniformity made it difficult to anticipate in advance what the applied duty would be. The scale of the smuggling problem itself is illustrated by the continuing prosecution of China's largest ever smuggling case, in which $US 10 billion in automobiles, oil, and other goods was imported illegally. (references) | |
Women | Malaysia | Women's rights advocates assert that women still face discriminatory treatment in Islamic courts due to prejudicial interpretation of Islamic family law against women and to the lack of uniformity in the implementation of family laws among the various states. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Aetna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Some people complain about the enforced uniformity of fast food all around the world, but personally I like the dependability. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | This act has been very imperfectly executed from the want of uniformity in the organization of the militia, proceeding from the defects of the system itself, and especially in its application to that main arm of the public defense. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | But it is a body of dislocated members, without the vigor of unity and having little of uniformity but the name. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | There were various other suggestions in my last annual message not acted upon, particularly that relating to the want of uniformity in the laws of the District of Columbia, that are deemed worthy of your favorable consideration. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | For the unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion. |
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| "Uniformity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Uniformity" is used about 356 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 356 | 15,102 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "uniformity": Act of Uniformity ♦ lack of uniformity. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "uniformity": non-uniformity. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
uniformity | 21 |
blend uniformity | 8 |
blend by nir uniformity | 7 |
flock uniformity | 2 |
camera gamma uniformity | 2 |
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| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "uniformity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | njëtrajtshmëri (equability, monotony, sameness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تماثل (community, homogeneity, identification, identify, identity, like, likeness, oneness, resemble, sameness, self identification, similarity, symmetry, sympathize), توحد (band together, enclose, inclose, retirement, solitude, unite), تشاكل, إنتظام (alignment, constancy, promptitude, punctuality, range, register), إتساق (consistency, matchmaking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неизменяемост (invariability, rigidity), неизменност (fixedness, immutability, invariability, permanence, permanency, rigidity), еднообразие (dead level, ding-dong, flatness, humdrum, jogtrot, monotony, sameness, tedium), еднаквост (equality, identity, oneness, parity, sameness), единство (marriage, oneness, solidarity, union, unity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 均一. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | uniformita, stejnomìrnost, konstantnost, jednotvárnost (baldness, monotony, tedium), jednotnost (oneness, togetherness, unanimity, unity), identiènost. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tilvejebringe ensartethed i frilisterne (to secure uniformity as regards the liberalisation lists), legeringers homogenitet (uniformity of alloys). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | de liberalisatielijsten gelijk maken (to secure uniformity as regards the liberalisation lists). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | یکنواختی (Humdrum, Monotony, Tedium), یکسانی (Equality), یکریختی , متحدالشکلی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yhtenäisyys (coherence, consistency, unity), yhdenmukaisuus (analogy, conformity, symmetry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | uniformité (uniformness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gleichmäßigkeit (consistency, equability, evenness, regularity, smoothness, stability, steadiness, symmetry), gleichförmigkeit (conformity, equality, uniformness), einförmigkeit (monotony). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ομοιομορφία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אחי"ות (consolidation, homogeneity, unity), ח" 'ו יות (humdrum, monotony, sameness), "אח"" (standartization, unification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hasonlatosság (analogy, resemblance), egyöntetûség (equability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | keseragaman. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | uniformit (equability, evenness, sameness, unity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 統一 (compatible, consolidation, unification, unity), "一 (standardization), 劃一 (standardization), ユニット分離キャラクタ (UNESCO, unification, unifier, uniform, unify, unit separator, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNIVAC, universal, universal space, universal time, universe, Universiade, university), 均等 (equality, evenness), 均勢 (balanceof power), 均一 (equality), 一様 (equality, evenness, impartiality, similarity), 一律 (equality, evenness, monotony). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ユニフォーミティー , き"せい (balance, balanceof power, ban, embargo, humbly made, made of gold, prohibition, recent times, symmetry, Venus), き"いつ (equality), き"とう (equality, evenness, Near East), かくいつ (standardization), いちりつ (equality, evenness, monotony), いちよう (a boat, a copy, a leaf, a page, equality, evenness, impartiality, similarity), とういつ (compatible, consolidation, unification, unity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | "성. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | un-chummey, rick (consistence, intelligence, news, order, satisfaction, settled rule, settlement, steadiness, story, tale), caslid (resemblance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iformityunay uniformidade (consistence, consistency, sameness), regularidade (regularity), constância (constancy, fixedness, perseverance, persistence, stability). (various references) unitate (concurrence, conformity, identity, integer, oneness, organization, union, unit, unity, whole), uniformitate (conformity, equability, evenness, sameness), regularitate (evenness, regularity, steadiness), egalitate (conformity, draw, equality, identity, par, parity, regularity, resemblance, sameness, similarity, tie), acord (accede, accession, accord, accordance, agree, agreement, arrangement, assent, cheer, chord, coincidence, compact, compliance, composition, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruity, consent, consentaneity, consistency, contract, convention, correspondence, covenant, harmony, key, permit, solidarity, treaty, understanding, union, unison, unity). (various references) единообразие (equability, uniformness). (various references) sličnost (kinship, likeness, resemblance, semblance, similarity, similitude), ravnomernost, jednolikost (humdrum, monotone, sameness, weariness). (various references) uniformidad (uniformness). (various references) uniformitet, likformighet (equability), enhetlighet (standardization, unity), enformighet (dullness, monotony, sameness). (various references) tekdüzelik (flatness, monotony, rut, sameness, squirrel cage), monotonluk (dinginess, dryness, flatness, monotone, monotonous, monotony, sameness, squirrel cage, tameness), istikrar (ballast, constancy, easiness, permanence, permanency, stability, stableness, steadiness, steady), değişmezlik (equability, firmness, fixity, immutability, invariability, rigidity, stability, stableness, unchangeablity), aynılık (identity, sameness, similar). (various references) одноманітність (dead level, equality, sameness). (various references) tính giống nhau (analogousness, sameness), tính đơn điệu, tính đều đều (regularity, sameness). (various references) unffurfiaeth. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aequalitas, aequalitate, aequalitatem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "uniformity": nonuniformity. (additional references) | |
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"Uniformity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unformity, uniformitys. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "uniformity" (pronounced yuw'nufô"rmutē) |
| 8 | -u f ô" r m u t ē | deformity. |
| 7 | -f ô" r m u t ē | conformity, Nonconformity. |
| 6 | -ô" r m u t ē | enormity. |
| 4 | -m u t ē | amity, anonymity, calamity, enmity, equanimity, extremity, infirmity, proximity, unanimity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, analyticity, animosity, annuity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, entity, equality, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, facility, fallibility, falsity, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, pomposity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, publicity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, unity, universality, university, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-i-m-n-o-r-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: fruition, fumitory, minority. | |
-3 letters: furmity, introfy, mortify, nitrify, uniform. | |
-4 letters: forint, fruity, infirm, inform, ionium, minify, mutiny, notify, untrim. | |
-5 letters: forty, forum, fount, front, fruit, futon, imino, intro, irony, minor, minty, motif, mount, mourn, mufti, muton, nifty, nitro, notum, onium, runty, rutin, torii, tumor, turfy, unfit, unify, unity, yourn. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-i-m-n-o-r-t-u-y" | |
+3 letters: nonuniformity. | |
+5 letters: uninformatively. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 69 66 6F 72 6D 69 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .. ..-. --- .-. -- .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101001 01100110 01101111 01110010 01101101 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n i f o r m i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0069 0066 006F 0072 006D 0069 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55807572818479758691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Historic 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Quotations: Spoken | 9. Quotations: Speeches 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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