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ubiquitous

English

Etymology

From Latin ubique (everywhere), from ubi (where).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ju??b?k.w?.t?s/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ju?b?k.w?.t?s/

Adjective

ubiquitous (not comparable)

  1. Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.
    Synonym: omnipresent
  2. Appearing to be everywhere at once; being or seeming to be in more than one location at the same time.
    • 1851 – Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 41
      One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time.
    Synonym: ever-present
  3. Widespread; very prevalent.
    Synonyms: common, pervasive

Quotations

  • 1927–1929 – Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Part V (XII) The Stain of Indigo, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai
    I returned to the Ashram. The ubiquitous Chetaskumar was there too.

Synonyms

  • see also Thesaurus:widespread

Derived terms

  • ubiquitously

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

  • ubiquitous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • ubiquitous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • ubiquitous at OneLook Dictionary Search

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uniform

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French uniforme, from Latin uniformis.

Pronunciation

  • (US) enPR: yo?o?n?-fôrm, IPA(key): /?jun??f??m/, /?jun?f?m/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /?ju?n?f??m/
  • Hyphenation: uni?form
  • Rhymes: -??(r)m

Adjective

uniform (comparative more uniform, superlative most uniform)

  1. Unvarying; all the same.
  2. Consistent; conforming to one standard.
    • 1593, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, in 1830, The Ecclesiastical Polity and Other Works of Richard Hooker, page 313,
      The only doubt is, about the manner of their unity; how far Churches are bound to be uniform in their Ceremonies, and what way they ought to take for that purpose.
  3. (mathematics) with speed of convergence not depending on choice of function argument; as in uniform continuity, uniform convergence
  4. (chemistry, of a polymer) Composed of a single macromolecular species.
  5. (geometry) (of a polyhedron) That is isogonal and whose faces are regular polygons; (of an n-dimensional (n>3) polytope) that is isogonal and whose bounding (n-1)-dimensional facets are uniform polytopes.

Usage notes

  • As a description of polymers, the IUPAC prefers the term uniform to monodisperse.

Synonyms

  • (unvarying): regular, stable; see also Thesaurus:steady
  • (all the same): invariable, of a piece; see also Thesaurus:homogeneous

Antonyms

  • nonuniform

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

uniform (plural uniforms)

  1. A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group.
    • 1932, Elmer Wheeler, Tested Selling Sentences (the Language of the Brain): Master Book
      The Hooverette [housedress] can be worn as a dress or as an apron.
      This is the latest in uniforms, madam, according to Vogue.
    • F. W. Robertson
      There are many things which a soldier will do in his plain clothes which he scorns to do in his uniform.
  2. Uniform, the letter U in the ICAO spelling alphabet
  3. A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective).
    • 1996, S. J. Rozan, Concourse,[2] Macmillan, ?ISBN, page 265,
      Skeletor held the gun against Speedo’s head, held Speedo between himself and the cops who stood, motionless and futile, where they’d stopped. Robinson, Lindfors, Carter, three uniforms and I watched helpless as Skeletor, dragging Speedy with him, inched out the gate, started backing down the hill.
    • 2001, Christine Wiltz, The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld,[3] Da Capo Press, ?ISBN, page 113,
      Four men flew out of it, three uniforms and one in what appeared to be an English riding outfit—boots, whip, the whole nine yards. [] He called out, “I’m the superintendent of police.”
    • 2004, Will Christopher Baer, Penny Dreadful,[4] MacAdam/Cage Publishing, ?ISBN, page 81,
      Eyes to the front now and there was the body, a lump of black and brown. Moon counted three uniforms and a photographer, the medical examiner and his assistant.

Translations

Verb

uniform (third-person singular simple present uniforms, present participle uniforming, simple past and past participle uniformed)

  1. (transitive) To clothe in a uniform.

Translations


Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French uniforme, from Latin ?nif?rmis.

Pronunciation 1

  • IPA(key): /?y.ni?f?rm/
  • Hyphenation: uni?form

Noun

uniform n (plural uniformen, diminutive uniformpje n)

  1. Uniform; a distinctive outfit. [from 18th c.]
Derived terms
  • politie-uniform
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: uniform

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /?yni?f?rm/
  • Hyphenation: uni?form
  • Rhymes: -?rm

Adjective

uniform (comparative uniformer, superlative uniformst)

  1. Uniform. [from 16th c.]
Inflection
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: uniform

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

uniform m or f (definite singular uniforma or uniformen, indefinite plural uniformer, definite plural uniformene)

  1. a uniform

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

uniform f (definite singular uniforma, indefinite plural uniformer, definite plural uniformene)

  1. a uniform

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /u??i.f?rm/

Noun

uniform m inan

  1. (rare) uniform

Declension

Synonyms

  • mundur, mundurek

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?nif?rmis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?u.ni?form/

Adjective

uniform m or n (feminine singular uniform?, masculine plural uniformi, feminine and neuter plural uniforme)

  1. uniform

Declension

Related terms


Swedish

Etymology

From Latin uniformis.

Pronunciation

Noun

uniform c

  1. Uniform; a distinctive outfit.

Declension

References

  • uniform in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) (noun)
  • uniform in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) (adjective)

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