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Definition: Unitary |
UnitaryAdjective1. 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. (government) 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". 4. Having the indivisible character of a unit; "a unitary action"; "spoke with one voice". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unitary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonym: UnitarySynonym: one(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: federal (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Unity | Adjective: one, sole, single, solitary, unitary; individual, apart, alone; kithless. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unitary |
| English words defined with "unitary": diagonalisation, diagonalization ♦ figure ♦ one. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unitary": Air Conditioner ♦ Unitary Authority. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Control Panels of the Unitary Wind Tunnel. Credit: NASA. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Turkey | For example, previously the Constitution prohibited the manifestation of an intent or willingness to abuse to criticize fundamental principles such as national security or the secular, unitary state. (references) |
Economic History | Ghana | It declares Ghana to be a unitary republic with sovereignty residing in the Ghanaian people. (references) |
Ghana | After independence, the CPP government under Nkrumah sought to develop Ghana as a modern, semi-industrialized, unitary socialist state. (references) | |
Human Rights | Zimbabwe | The law provides for a unitary court system, consisting of headmen's courts, chiefs' courts, magistrates' courts, the High Court, and the Supreme Court. (references) |
Political Economy | BRAZIL | Brazil switched to a unitary, floating rate foreign exchange regime in January 1999. (references) |
Ecuador | Under the 1998 Constitution, Ecuador is a unitary state with a republican, presidential, elective and representative government. (references) | |
Trade | Latvia | As of July 1, 2001, these functions were taken over by a unitary financial supervisory authority, the Financial and Capital Market Commission (FCMC). The Commission is charged with the task of regulating and supervising the financial and capital market and the activities of its participants in accordance with the Law "On the Financial and Capital Market Commission" adopted by the Latvian parliament on June 1, 2000. (references) |
Worker Rights | Honduras | The labor movement is composed of three national labor organizations: the General Council of Workers (CGT), the Confederation of Honduran Workers (CTH), and the Unitary Confederation of Honduran Workers (CUTH). (references) |
Brazil | The Constitution and the Labor Code provide for union representation of all workers (except members of the military, the uniformed police, and firemen) but imposes a hierarchical, unitary system funded by a mandatory union tax on workers and employers. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unitary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.44% of the time. "Unitary" is used about 273 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.44% | 266 | 18,071 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.83% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.73% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 273 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "unitary": Science of Unitary Human Beings ♦ Unitary Authority ♦ unitary backing ♦ unitary elasticity ♦ Unitary Health Care ♦ Unitary Pattern Appreciation ♦ unitary sampling ♦ unitary tax ♦ unitary tax system ♦ unitary theory ♦ unitary trade union centre ♦ unitary weight. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "unitary": unitary-tax. | |
Ending with "unitary": federal-unitary, non-unitary. | |
| 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 |
group product unitary | 29 |
unitary | 16 |
product unitary | 11 |
government unitary | 8 |
government system unitary | 5 |
system unitary | 4 |
state unitary | 4 |
protocol public unitary | 2 |
tax unitary | 2 |
matrix unitary | 2 |
group product unitary york | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unitary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | unik (common, only, single, uniform, unique), i njësisë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | وحدي, وحدوي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неделим (impartible, indivisible, infrangible, integral, whole), единен (aggregate, one, solid, undivided), без разделение на властите. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 单一 (singular, sole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neèlenìný, jednotkový. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | unitarisk skattesystem (unitary tax system), unitar stikprøveudvælgelse (unitary sampling), krænkelse af varemærkets enhedskarakter (undermining of the unitary character of the trade mark), klima-kabinet (room air-conditioner, room air-conditioning unit, unit air-conditioner, unitary air-conditioner), klima-apparat (room air-conditioner, room air-conditioning unit, unit air-conditioner, unitary air-conditioner), klima-aggregat (room air-conditioner, room air-conditioning unit, unit air-conditioner, unitary air-conditioner), ensartet beskatning (unitary tax), enhedstakst (commission, single unitary tariff), enhedskommune (Unitary Authority), enhedsfagbevægelse (single trade union centre, unitary trade union centre), enhedselasticitet (unit elasticity, unitary elasticity), enhedsafskrivning (unitary depreciation), EF-varemærkets enhedskarakter (unitary character of the Community trade mark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | unitaire waardevermindering (unitary depreciation), unitaire steekproefname (unitary sampling), unitaire belasting (unitary tax), unitair overheidslichaam (Unitary Authority), unitair belastingstelsel (unitary tax system), luchtbehandelingskast (room air-conditioner, room air-conditioning unit, unit air-conditioner, unitary air-conditioner), het Gemeenschapsmerk vormt een eenheid (unitary character of the Community trade mark), eenheidsvakcentrale (single trade union centre, unitary trade union centre), eenheidsvakbond (single trade union centre, unitary trade union centre), eenheidsvakbeweging (single trade union centre, unitary trade union centre), eenheidstarief (single unitary tariff), eenheidsbelasting (unitary tax), de elasticiteitscoëfficiënt is 1 (unit elasticity, unitary elasticity), aantasting van het eenheidskarakter van het merk (undermining of the unitary character of the trade mark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | یکتاپرست (Unitarian), پیروتوحید (Unitarian), توحیدگرای (Unitarian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yleishallintoviranomainen (Unitary Authority), yksikkötason otanta (unitary sampling), konsernitasolla toimitettava verotus (unitary tax system), konsernikohtainen verotus (unitary tax system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | unitaire (uniform, unitarian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | einheits-, einheitlich (coherent, consistent, consistently, integrative, standard, unified, uniform, uniformly, unrelieved). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μοναδιαία ελαστικότητα (unit elasticity, unitary elasticity), προσβολή του ενιαίου χαρακτήρα του σήματος (undermining of the unitary character of the trade mark), υποτίμηση ανά μονάδα (unitary depreciation), ενιαίος χαρακτήρας του κοινοτικού σήματος (unitary character of the Community trade mark), ενιαίο τιμολόγιο (single unitary tariff), ελαστικότητα ίση με τη μονάδα (unit elasticity, unitary elasticity), άμεση δειγματοληψία (unitary sampling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | יחי"תי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | egységes (integrated, organic, solid, unified, uniform). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | unitario (unitarian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 単一性 , 一元的 (centralized, monistic, unified), 一元 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | た"いつせい, いち'"てき (centralized, monistic, unified), いち'" (never before met, single word, unfamiliar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 단일. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | itaryunay unitário. (various references) unitar (unitarian), omogen (homogene, homogeneal, homogeneous, smooth). (various references) унитарный. (various references) unitaristički, unitaran, jedinični (unit), individualan (individual), centralizovan, čitav (entire, intact, safe, whole). (various references) unitario (unit). (various references) enhetlig (flat, standardized, uniform). (various references) birimsel, bölünmez (indivisible), ünite (unit). (various references) унітарний, одиничний. (various references) unedol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Unitary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dunnottar, Dunottar, epitaxy, Initard, unattri, uneary, Unistar, Unitar, unitard, unitarist, unitarty, unitey, untar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unitary" (pronounced yuw"nute'rē) |
| 6 | -n u t e' r ē | dignitary, interplanetary, monetary, planetary, sanitary, unsanitary. |
| 5 | -u t e' r ē | budgetary, cemetery, cometary, depositary, dietary, hereditary, military, nonmilitary, paramilitary, pituitary, proprietary, salutary, secretary, solitary, tributary, undersecretary. |
| 4 | -t e' r ē | commentary, dysentery, fragmentary, involuntary, momentary, monastery, sedentary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, bicentenary, Blackberry, blueberry, capillary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, centenary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, cranberry, culinary, customary, deflationary, Dewberry, dictionary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, diversionary, Dogberry, dromedary, emissary, epistolary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, fiduciary, formulary, functionary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, honorary, Huckleberry, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, legendary, library, literary, luminary, mercenary, missionary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, noninflationary, obituary, ordinary, pecuniary, preliminary, primary, probationary, pulmonary, quaternary, raspberry, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, Rosemary, sanctuary, savagery, secondary, semilegendary, seminary, stationary, stationery, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, unnecessary, urinary, veterinary, visionary, vocabulary. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-n-r-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: nutria. | |
-2 letters: aunty, rainy, riant, runty, rutin, train, unary, unity, yurta. | |
-3 letters: airn, airt, airy, anti, arty, aunt, ayin, nary, rain, rani, rant, ruin, runt, tain, tarn, tiny, tray, tuna, turn, tyin, unai, unit, yarn, yuan, yurt. | |
-4 letters: ain, air, ait, ani, ant, any, art, nay, nit, nut, ran, rat, ray, ria, rin, run. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-n-r-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: urbanity. | |
+2 letters: antiquary, unclarity, unitarily, unreality. | |
+3 letters: angularity, cautionary, cystinuria, incubatory, insularity, inundatory, neutrality, outpraying, quaternity, ruminantly, suzerainty, tenurially, tranquilly, unliterary, unmilitary, unmorality, unsanitary. | |
+4 letters: ablutionary, anticruelty, cystinurias, functionary, granularity, guarantying, inculpatory, insalubrity, inscrutably, interlunary, involuntary, luxuriantly, nonauditory, outwearying, questionary, rudimentary, singularity, taciturnity, tranquility, uncertainly, uncertainty, voluntarily. | |
+5 letters: annunciatory, antiburglary, avuncularity, binocularity, churchianity, denunciatory, elocutionary, evolutionary, granulocytic, inaccurately, inarticulacy, industrially, insurability, interfaculty, intramurally, manipulatory, neurotically, prudentially, renunciatory, ruminatively, subnormality, tranquillity, triangularly, trilingually, triumphantly, uncharitably, uncritically, unhysterical, unilaterally, universality, unpopularity, unprofitably, valetudinary, voluntaryism, voluntaryist. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 69 74 61 72 79 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .. - .- .-. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101001 01110100 01100001 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n i t a r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0069 0074 0061 0072 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55807586678491 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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