UNITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unity mean? 

• UNITY (noun)
  The noun UNITY has 3 senses:

1. an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting

2. the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number

3. the quality of being united into one

  Familiarity information: UNITY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

integrity; unity; wholeness

Context example:

he took measures to insure the territorial unity of Croatia

Hypernyms ("unity" is a kind of...):

state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)

Attribute:

broken (physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split)

unbroken (not broken; whole and intact; in one piece)

whole (including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete)

fractional (constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unity"):

completeness (the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed)

incompleteness; rawness (the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

1; ace; I; one; single; unity

Context example:

they had lunch at one

Hypernyms ("unity" is a kind of...):

digit; figure (one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unity"):

monad; monas (a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive)

singleton (a single object (as distinguished from a pair))

Sense 3

Meaning:

The quality of being united into one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

oneness; unity

Hypernyms ("unity" is a kind of...):

identicalness; identity; indistinguishability (exact sameness)

 Context examples 

His mind made for unity, and he was surprised when at first he began to see points of contact between the two worlds.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then as people began to leave, that may have made it harder to maintain the social unity needed for defense and new infrastructure.

(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)

Sympathies, I believe, exist (for instance, between far-distant, long-absent, wholly estranged relatives asserting, notwithstanding their alienation, the unity of the source to which each traces his origin) whose workings baffle mortal comprehension.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A non-SI unit of energy defined as the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of pure water by one degree (from 19.5 to 20.5 C or from 292.65 to 293.65 K) under standard conditions with the specific heat of the water at 20 degrees Celsius and the constant pressure of 101.325 kPa or one atm being defined as unity.

(Calorie 20 Degrees Celsius, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-SI unit of energy defined as the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of pure water by one degree (from 3.5 to 4.5 C or from 276.65 to 277.65 K) under standard conditions with the specific heat of the water at 4 degrees Celsius and the constant pressure of 101.325 kPa or one atm being defined as unity.

(Calorie 4 Degrees Celsius, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-SI unit of energy defined as the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of pure water by one degree (from 14.5 to 15.5 C or from 287.65 to 288.65 K) under standard conditions with the specific heat of the water at 15 degrees Celsius and the constant pressure of 101.325 kPa or one atm being defined as unity.

(Calorie 15 Degrees Celsius, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-SI unit of energy defined as the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of pure water by one degree Centigrade under standard conditions (the specific heat of the water at 3.98, 14.5, or 19.5 degrees Celcius and the constant pressure of 101.325 kPa or one atm being defined as unity), equal to approximately 4.184 J.

(Calorie, NCI Thesaurus)

When I went to move him, it became at once apparent that he had received some terrible injuries; there seemed none of that unity of purpose between the parts of the body which marks even lethargic sanity.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And here was the man Spencer, organizing all knowledge for him, reducing everything to unity, elaborating ultimate realities, and presenting to his startled gaze a universe so concrete of realization that it was like the model of a ship such as sailors make and put into glass bottles.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A non-SI unit of energy defined as the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of pure water by one degree Centigrade under standard conditions (the specific heat of the water at 15 degrees Celsius and the constant pressure of 101.325 kPa or one atm being defined as unity), equal to approximately 4.1855 kJ.

(Calorie, NCI Thesaurus)