Definition of UNIFORM

uniform

Meanings

Plural: uniforms

Noun

  • clothing of distinctive design worn by members of a particular group as a means of identification
  • A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group, company, prison inmates, etc.
  • alternative letter-case form of Uniform from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
  • A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective).

Verb

  • provide with uniforms
    • "The guards were uniformed"
  • To clothe in a uniform.

Adjective

  • always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences
    • "a street of uniform tall white buildings"
  • not differentiated

Adjective Satellite

  • the same throughout in structure or composition
  • evenly spaced
    • "at regular (or uniform) intervals"

Adj

  • Unvarying; all the same.
  • Consistent; conforming to one standard.
  • with speed of convergence not depending on choice of function argument; as in uniform continuity, uniform convergence
  • Composed of a single macromolecular species.
  • (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.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French uniforme, from Latin uniformis.

Scrabble Score: 12

uniform is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
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Words With Friends Score: 15

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