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uniform

2. Alternative letter-case form of Uniform of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

Borrowed from Middle French uniforme, from Latin uniformis.

• (US) enPR: yo͞oʹnĭ-fôrm, IPA^(key): /ˈjunɪˌfɔɹm/, /ˈjunɪfɚm/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈjuːnɪfɔːm/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈjʉnɪfɔɾm/
• Hyphenation: u‧ni‧form

uniform (comparative more uniform, superlative most uniform)

1. Unvarying; all the same.

   Synonyms: regular, stable; invariable, of a piece; see also Thesaurus:steady, Thesaurus:homogeneous

   Antonym: diverse

   • 1943 March and April, “G.W.R. Rolling Stock Colours”, in Railway Magazine, page 106:

     "Chocolate and cream," the standard colours of G.W.R. rolling stock for 21 years, are now being replaced by an all-over utility coating of reddish-brown. This is the third time that a uniform brown has been adopted as the standard livery of G.W.R. carriages.

   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 184:

     Some exponents of these ideas went so far as to maintain that the perfect society required all its members to be completely uniform in all respects-not only their rights and duties, but their way of life and thought, food and clothing, and even (according to Dom Deschamps and others) their physical appearance.

2. Consistent; conforming to one standard.

   Synonyms: compliant, congruent; see also Thesaurus:conformant

   • 1593, Richard Hooker, “Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity”, in The Ecclesiastical Polity and Other Works of Richard Hooker, published 1830, 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.

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

• nonuniform
• omniform, multiform; Thesaurus:multiform

• quasiuniform
• semiuniform
• universal

uniform (plural uniforms)

2. A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group, company, prison inmates, etc.
   • 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.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     ‘ […] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.

   • F. W. Robertson

     There are many things which a soldier will do in his plain clothes which he scorns to do in his uniform.

   • 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:

     Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. […] There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. […]

4. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Uniform from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
5. (law enforcement) A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective).
   • 1996, S. J. Rozan, Concourse‎^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], 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.

6. (computer graphics) In OpenGL, a global shader variable whose value does not change between rendering calls, serving as a parameter.
   • 2009, Randi J. Rost, ‎Bill Licea-Kane, ‎Dan Ginsburg, OpenGL Shading Language

     Hence, uniforms of the same name in a vertex and fragment program will be the same uniform variable. Uniforms cannot be written to in a shader. This is sensible because an array of processors may be sharing the same resources […]

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

1. (transitive) To clothe in a uniform.
   • 1910, Robert W. Chambers, Ailsa Paige‎^[4]:

     You can't erect an army by uniforming and drilling a few hundred thousand clerks and farmers.

Borrowed from Middle French uniforme, from Latin ūnifōrmis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈy.niˌfɔrm/
• Hyphenation: uni‧form

uniform n (plural uniformen, diminutive uniformpje n)

1. uniform; a distinctive outfit [from 18th c.]

• Afrikaans: uniform

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• IPA^(key): /ˌyniˈfɔrm/
• Hyphenation: uni‧form
• Rhymes: -ɔrm

uniform (comparative uniformer, superlative uniformst)

1. uniform [from 16th c.]

   Synonym: eenvormig

   Antonyms: veelvormig, pluriform, polymorf

Declension of uniform
uninflected	uniform
inflected	uniforme
comparative	uniformer
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		uniform	uniformer	het uniformst het uniformste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	uniforme	uniformere	uniformste
	n. sing.	uniform	uniformer	uniformste
	plural	uniforme	uniformere	uniformste
definite		uniforme	uniformere	uniformste
partitive		uniforms	uniformers	—

• Afrikaans: uniform

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

1. a uniform

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

1. a uniform

Borrowed from French uniforme.

• IPA^(key): /uˈɲi.fɔrm/

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• Rhymes: -ifɔrm
• Syllabification: u‧ni‧form

uniform m inan

1. (rare) uniform

   Synonyms: mundur, mundurek

• “uniform”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[5] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “uniform”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[6] (in Polish)

Learned borrowing from Latin ūnifōrmis.

• IPA^(key): /ˌu.niˈform/

uniform m or n (feminine singular uniformă, masculine plural uniformi, feminine/neuter plural uniforme)

1. uniform

From Latin uniformis.

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uniform c

1. Uniform; a distinctive outfit.

• “uniform”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) (noun)
• “uniform”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) (adjective)