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  • English Word Unipolar Definition Having but one pole or process; -- applied to those ganglionic nerve cells which have but one radiating process; -- opposed to multipolar.
  • English Word Unique Definition Being without a like or equal; unmatched; unequaled; unparalleled; single in kind or excellence; sole.
  • English Word Unique Definition A thing without a like; something unequaled or unparalleled.
  • English Word Uniquity Definition The quality or state of being unique; uniqueness.
  • English Word Uniradiated Definition Having but one ray.
  • English Word Uniramous Definition Having but one branch.
  • English Word Uniseptate Definition Having but one septum, or partition; -- said of two-celled fruits, such as the silicles of cruciferous plants.
  • English Word Uniserial Definition Having only one row or series.
  • English Word Uniseriate Definition Having one line or series; uniserial.
  • English Word Unisexual Definition Having one sex only, as plants which have the male and female flowers on separate individuals, or animals in which the sexes are in separate individuals; di/cious; -- distinguished from bisexual, or hermaphrodite. See Di/cious.
  • English Word Unisilicate Definition A salt of orthosilicic acid, H4SiO4; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen atoms united to the basic metals and silicon respectively is 1:1; for example, Mg2SiO4 or 2MgO.SiO2.
  • English Word Unison Definition Harmony; agreement; concord; union.
  • English Word Unison Definition Identity in pitch; coincidence of sounds proceeding from an equality in the number of vibrations made in a given time by two or more sonorous bodies. Parts played or sung in octaves are also said to be in unison, or in octaves.
  • English Word Unison Definition A single, unvaried.
  • English Word Unison Definition Sounding alone.
  • English Word Unison Definition Sounded alike in pitch; unisonant; unisonous; as, unison passages, in which two or more parts unite in coincident sound.
  • English Word Unisonal Definition Being in unison; unisonant.
  • English Word Unisonance Definition Accordance of sounds; unison.
  • English Word Unisonant Definition Being in unison; having the same degree of gravity or acuteness; sounded alike in pitch.
  • English Word Unisonous Definition Being in unison; unisonant.
  • English Word Unit Definition A single thing or person.
  • English Word Unit Definition The least whole number; one.
  • English Word Unit Definition A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings.
  • English Word Unit Definition Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind.
  • English Word Unit Definition A single thing, as a magnitude or number, regarded as an undivided whole.
  • English Word Unitable Definition Capable of union by growth or otherwise.
  • English Word Unitarian Definition One who denies the doctrine of the Trinity, believing that God exists only in one person; a unipersonalist; also, one of a denomination of Christians holding this belief.
  • English Word Unitarian Definition One who rejects the principle of dualism.
  • English Word Unitarian Definition A monotheist.
  • English Word Unitarian Definition Of or pertaining to Unitarians, or their doctrines.