单词 | unification |
释义 | unification (once / 3866 pages) n Unification describes the bringing together of two or more things so they become a single unit. If your marriage turns your feuding families into one big happy group, you pulled off a unification that would make Romeo and Juliet jealous. Unification comes from the word unify, which traces back to the Middle French word unifier, meaning "to make into one." Unification often happens in the corporate world, and you might have heard the term merger used to describe this process. If two or more companies decide to become a single company in order to benefit their business, they must first go through a legal process to complete the unification. WORD FAMILYunification: unifications+/disunify: disunified, disunifying/subunit: subunits/unify: disunify, unification, unified, unifies, unifying/unifying: unifyingly/unit: subunit, unify, unitise, unitize, units/unitise: unitisation/unitize: unitization, unitized, unitizing USAGE EXAMPLESThe men were sent back across the de facto maritime border in two of their boats, according to the Ministry of Unification in Seoul. BBC(Dec 19, 2016) In fact, only 1.5 percent of Taiwanese support immediate unification with China, with even less support among young people. New York Times(Dec 13, 2016) The centre was founded in 1977 by the controversial Unification Church. BBC(Dec 04, 2016) 1n the act of making or becoming a single unit he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper conjugation, jointure, union, uniting disunion the termination or destruction of union coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts reunification, reunionthe act of coming together again tribalisation, tribalizationthe act of making tribal; unification on a tribal basis umbrellahaving the function of uniting a group of similar things homecomingan annual school or university reunion for graduates combination, combining, compounding the act of combining things to form a new whole 2n an occurrence that involves the production of a union Syn|Hyper fusion, merger union the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts 3n the state of being joined or united or linked Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper union separation the state of lacking unity coalition, fusion the state of being combined into one body connectedness, connection, linkthe state of being connected colligation, conjugation, conjunction, junctionthe state of being joined together associationthe state of being connected together as in memory or imagination marriagea close and intimate union syncretismthe union (or attempted fusion) of different systems of thought or belief (especially in religion or philosophy) anastomosis, inosculationa natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous synapsethe junction between two neurons (axon-to-dendrite) or between a neuron and a muscle alliance, confederationthe state of being allied or confederated federalisation, federalizationthe state of being under federal control contactthe state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity concatenationthe state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series interconnectedness, interconnectiona state of being connected reciprocally coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesivenessthe state of cohering or sticking together state the way something is with respect to its main attributes |
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