Split-up and Unity
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
noun
- An undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting.
- usage: "the integrity of the nervous system is required for normal development"; "he took measures to insure the territorial unity of Croatia"
- The smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number.
- usage: "he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"; "they had lunch at one"
- The quality of being united into one.
- synonyms: oneness
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.
- (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.
- (n.) The state of being one; oneness.
- (n.) Concord; harmony; conjunction; agreement; uniformity; as, a unity of proofs; unity of doctrine.
- (n.) Such a combination of parts as to constitute a whole or a kind of symmetry of style and character.
- (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary