Unitary Meaning
/ˈjuːnɪt(ə)ɹi/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjHaving the quality of oneness.
adjThat concentrates power in a single body, rather than sharing it with more local bodies.
Sentence Examples
Algeria is a unitary state.
We believe in a unitary god.
Should our fictional state be unitary or federal?
CEFR Practice Quiz
The country adopted a ____ system of government with a single central authority.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
A ____ state is a country that is governed as a single entity, where the central government is supreme today.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English unit Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English unitary From unit + -ary.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"If yes–no questions are CPs containing a null yes–no question operator (a null counterpart of whether) in spec-CP, we can arrive at a unitary characterisation of questions as CPs with an interrogative specifier."
— 2004, Andrew Radford, Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 221:
"The eigenvectors of an orthogonal or unitary operator, corresponding to different eigenvalues, are orthogonal."
— 1997, P. K. Suetin, Alexandra I. Kostrikin, Yuri I. Manin, translated by M. E. Alferieff, Linear Algebra and Geometry, page 137:
"In essence we are looking for some way to average the individual unitary matrices Uₖ. But a linear combination of unitary matrices does not remain unitary."
— 2002, M. Klajman, J. A. Chambers, “A Novel Approximate Joint Diagonalization Algorithm”, in J. G. McWhirter, I. K. Proudler, editors, Mathematics in Signal Processing V, page 71:
"We then repeat the same procedure to the (d − 1) × (d − 1) block unitary matrix using (d − 2) two-level unitary matrices."
— 2008, Mikio Nakahara, Tetsuo Ohmi, Quantum Computing: From Linear Algebra to Physical Realizations, page 84:
"Outside the metropolitan areas most councils (English and Welsh counties, London boroughs, Scottish and Welsh unitaries, and Northern Ireland districts) are now elected en bloc every four years."
— 2005, John Greenwood, Robert Pyper, David Wilson, New Public Administration in Britain:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The country adopted a ____ system of government with a single central authority.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
A ____ state is a country that is governed as a single entity, where the central government is supreme today.