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English

Etymology

Either from unify +? -ification or from French unification

Noun

unification (countable and uncountable, plural unifications)

1. The act of unifying.
2. The state of being unified.
3. (mathematical logic, computer science) Given two terms, their join with respect to a specialisation order.

   • 5.7.T ( Unification theorem ) For any two terms or formulas
     without quantifiers X and Y, the following holds.
     (i) The unification algorithm UNIF₁, applied to X, Y,
     terminates after a finite number of steps.
     (ii) {X, Y} is unifiable iff UNIF₁ so indicates upon ter-
     mination. Moreover, the substitution ? then available as out-
     put is a most general unifier of {X, Y}.

Antonyms

• division

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• reunification

Further reading

• unification in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Etymology

unifier +? -ification

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.ni.fi.ka.sj??/

Noun

unification f (plural unifications)

1. unification

Further reading

• “unification” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li??/
• Rhymes: -i??

Etymology 1

From Middle English liege, ligg, lige (“a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance”), from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin lig? (“I tie”).

Noun

league (plural leagues)

1. A group or association of cooperating members.
   • 1668, John Denham, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas

     And let there be / 'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity.

2. (sports) An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.

3. (informal, rugby) Ellipsis of rugby league

4. (often in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.

5. A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: ?).

Derived terms

Related terms

• ally
• alliance

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (r?gu)
• ? Korean: ?? (rigeu)

Translations

Verb

league (third-person singular simple present leagues, present participle leaguing, simple past and past participle leagued)

1. To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.

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Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English lege (“league”), from Late Latin leuca, leuga (“the Gaulish mile”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *lewg? (compare Middle Breton leau, Welsh lew, Breton lev / leo (“league”)).

Noun

league (plural leagues)

1. (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
   • 1751-1753, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47

     Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered.
2. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “league”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Middle English Dictionary, lege