单词 | unified |
释义 | unifiedadj. 1. a. That is or has been made into one from separate parts; united, combined, consolidated. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or fact of uniting or being united > [adjective] redacta1398 unitec1429 adunatec1475 co-unite1548 united1552 atoned1611 unial1613 consisting1626 unioned1704 co-unea1711 unified1862 1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 178 The residual part..he is to consider as unified. 1882 Standard 30 Dec. 2/2 The Unified Debt fell about 18l. 1883 Fortn. Rev. July 107 After the whole metropolis is under a unified authority. b. Used absolutely or as n. ΚΠ 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Nov. 5/2 Egyptian Unifieds continued to rise yesterday. 1884 Academy 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 (originally gravitation and electromagnetism) previously described by separate theories. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [noun] > mutual relation of force and energy > unified theory unified (field) theory1935 grand unified theory1977 GUT1978 1935 E. A. Milne Relativity, Gravitation & World-struct. 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. 1959 Listener 26 Mar. 544/2 The first unified field theory was produced not by Einstein but by Hermann Weyl, in 1918. 1979 New 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. 1983 Nature 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1862 |
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