uniform
/ˈjuːnɪfɔːm/ · noun
Meaning
- A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group.
- Phonetic equivalent for the letter U in the ICAO spelling alphabet, informally known as the NATO phonetic alphabet.
- A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective).
- To clothe in a uniform.
- 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
- (of a polymer) 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.
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