Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter U - Page 18

Unipersonal (a.) Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal.

Unipersonalist (n.) One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal.

Uniphonous (a.) Having but one sound, as the drum.

Uniplicate (a.) Having, or consisting of, but one fold.

Unipolar (a.) Having, or acting by means of, one pole only.

Unipolar (a.) Having but one pole or process; -- applied to those ganglionic nerve cells which have but one radiating process; -- opposed to multipolar.

Unique (a.) Being without a like or equal; unmatched; unequaled; unparalleled; single in kind or excellence; sole.

Unique (n.) A thing without a like; something unequaled or unparalleled.

Uniquity (n.) The quality or state of being unique; uniqueness.

Uniradiated (a.) Having but one ray.

Uniramous (a.) Having but one branch.

Uniseptate (a.) Having but one septum, or partition; -- said of two-celled fruits, such as the silicles of cruciferous plants.

Uniserial (a.) Having only one row or series.

Uniseriate (a.) Having one line or series; uniserial.

Unisexual (a.) Having one sex only, as plants which have the male and female flowers on separate individuals, or animals in which the sexes are in separate individuals; di/cious; -- distinguished from bisexual, or hermaphrodite. See Di/cious.

Unisilicate (n.) A salt of orthosilicic acid, H4SiO4; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen atoms united to the basic metals and silicon respectively is 1:1; for example, Mg2SiO4 or 2MgO.SiO2.

Unison (n.) Harmony; agreement; concord; union.

Unison (n.) Identity in pitch; coincidence of sounds proceeding from an equality in the number of vibrations made in a given time by two or more sonorous bodies. Parts played or sung in octaves are also said to be in unison, or in octaves.

Unison (n.) A single, unvaried.

Unison (n.) Sounding alone.

Unison (n.) Sounded alike in pitch; unisonant; unisonous; as, unison passages, in which two or more parts unite in coincident sound.

Unisonal (a.) Being in unison; unisonant.

Unisonance (n.) Accordance of sounds; unison.

Unisonant (a.) Being in unison; having the same degree of gravity or acuteness; sounded alike in pitch.

Unisonous (a.) Being in unison; unisonant.

Unit (n.) A single thing or person.

Unit (n.) The least whole number; one.

Unit (n.) A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings.

Unit (n.) Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind.

Unit (n.) A single thing, as a magnitude or number, regarded as an undivided whole.

Unitable (a.) Capable of union by growth or otherwise.

Unitarian (n.) One who denies the doctrine of the Trinity, believing that God exists only in one person; a unipersonalist; also, one of a denomination of Christians holding this belief.

Unitarian (n.) One who rejects the principle of dualism.

Unitarian (n.) A monotheist.

Unitarian (a.) Of or pertaining to Unitarians, or their doctrines.

Unitarianism (n.) The doctrines of Unitarians.

Unitarianized (imp. & p. p.) of Unitarianize

Unitarianizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Unitarianize

Unitarianize (v. t. & i.) To change or turn to Unitarian views.

Unitary (a.) Of or pertaining to a unit or units; relating to unity; as, the unitary method in arithmetic.

Unitary (a.) Of the nature of a unit; not divided; united.

United (imp. & p. p.) of Unite

Uniting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Unite

Unite (v. t.) To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to unite bricks by mortar; to unite iron bars by welding; to unite two armies.

Unite (v. t.) Hence, to join by a legal or moral bond, as families by marriage, nations by treaty, men by opinions; to join in interest, affection, fellowship, or the like; to cause to agree; to harmonize; to associate; to attach.

Unite (v. i.) To become one; to be cemented or consolidated; to combine, as by adhesion or mixture; to coalesce; to grow together.

Unite (v. i.) To join in an act; to concur; to act in concert; as, all parties united in signing the petition.

Unite (v. t.) United; joint; as, unite consent.

United (a.) Combined; joined; made one.

Unitedly (adv.) In an united manner.

Uniter (n.) One who, or that which, unites.

Uniterable (a.) Not iterable; incapable of being repeated.

Unition (v. t.) The act of uniting, or the state of being united; junction.

Unitive (a.) Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union.

Unitively (adv.) In a unitive manner.

Unitized (imp. & p. p.) of Unitize

Unitizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Unitize

Unitize (v. t.) To reduce to a unit, or one whole; to form into a unit; to unify.

Unitude (n.) Unity.

Unities (pl. ) of Unity

Unity (n.) The state of being one; oneness.

Unity (n.) Concord; harmony; conjunction; agreement; uniformity; as, a unity of proofs; unity of doctrine.

Unity (n.) 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.

Unity (n.) 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.

Unity (n.) Such a combination of parts as to constitute a whole, or a kind of symmetry of style and character.

Unity (n.) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.

Univalence (n.) The quality or state of being univalent.

Univalent (a.) Having a valence of one; capable of combining with, or of being substituted for, one atom of hydrogen; monovalent; -- said of certain atoms and radicals.

Univalve (n.) A shell consisting of one valve only; a mollusk whose shell is composed of a single piece, as the snails and conchs.

Univalve (a.) Alt. of Univalved

Univalved (a.) Having one valve; as, a univalve shell or pericarp.

Univalvia (n. pl.) Same as Gastropoda.

Univalvular (a.) Same as Univalve, a.

Universal (a.) Of or pertaining to the universe; extending to, including, or affecting, the whole number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; all-reaching; all-pervading; as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice.

Universal (a.) Constituting or considered as a whole; total; entire; whole; as, the universal world.

Universal (a.) Adapted or adaptable to all or to various uses, shapes, sizes, etc.; as, a universal milling machine.

Universal (a.) Forming the whole of a genus; relatively unlimited in extension; affirmed or denied of the whole of a subject; as, a universal proposition; -- opposed to particular; e. g. (universal affirmative) All men are animals; (universal negative) No men are omniscient.

Universal (n.) The whole; the general system of the universe; the universe.

Universal (n.) A general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it.

Universal (n.) A universal proposition. See Universal, a., 4.

Universalian (a.) Of or pertaining to Universalism; Universalist.

Universalism (n.) The doctrine or belief that all men will be saved, or made happy, in the future state.

Universalist (n.) One who believes in Universalism; one of a denomination of Christians holding this faith.

Universalist (n.) One who affects to understand all the particulars in statements or propositions.

Universalist (a.) Of or pertaining to Unversalists of their doctrines.

Universalistic (a.) Of or pertaining to the whole; universal.

Universalties (pl. ) of Universality

Universality (n.) The quality or state of being universal; unlimited extension or application; generality; -- distinguished from particularity; as, the unversality of a proposition; the unversality of sin; the unversality of the Deluge.

Universalized (imp. & p. p.) of Universalize

Universalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Universalize

Universalize (v. t.) To make universal; to generalize.

Universally (adv.) In a universal manner; without exception; as, God's laws are universally binding on his creatures.

Universalness (n.) The quality or state of being universal; universality.

Universe (n.) All created things viewed as constituting one system or whole; the whole body of things, or of phenomena; the / / of the Greeks, the mundus of the Latins; the world; creation.

Universities (pl. ) of University

University (n.) The universe; the whole.

University (n.) An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property.

University (n.) An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning.

Universological (a.) Of or pertaining to universology.

Universologist (n.) One who is versed in universology.

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