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unified, ppl. a.|ˈjuːnɪfaɪd|
[f. unify v. + -ed1.]
1. a. That is or has been made into one from separate parts; united, combined, consolidated.
1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 178 The residual part..he is to consider as unified. 1882Standard 30 Dec. 2/2 The Unified Debt fell about 18l. 1883Fortn. Rev. July 107 After the whole metropolis is under a unified authority.
b. Used absolutely or as n.
1883Pall Mall G. 30 Nov. 5/2 Egyptian Unifieds continued to rise yesterday. 1884Academy 2 Aug. 74/1 Unification is pleasant to the unifier only, not to the unified.
2. Special collocation. unified (field) theory (Physics): a field theory that describes two or more of the four interactions (orig. gravitation and electromagnetism) previously described by separate theories.
1935E. A. Milne Relativity, Gravitation & World-Structure i. 13 This view is in violent opposition to the demand for a ‘unified field theory’, a demand for further geometrical modification of the space used so as to be able to employ these modifications in describing electro⁓magnetic phenomena. 1959Listener 26 Mar. 544/2 The first unified field theory was produced not by Einstein but by Hermann Weyl, in 1918. 1979New Scientist 1 Mar. 667/2 QCD is a particularly favoured theory because it is very similar to the ‘field theories’ of the other forces in nature, and this would be a great help in formulating ‘GUTs’, the grand unified theories of the strong, weak and electromagnetic forces which currently challenge theorists. 1983Nature 27 Jan. 285/2 Minimal SU(5), one of the simplest of the ‘grand unified theories’, or GUTs, which links all the non-gravitational forces. |