Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - unity
Unity
unity
n. (pl. -ies) 1 oneness; being one, single, or individual; being formed of parts that constitute a whole; due interconnection and coherence of parts (disturbs the unity of the idea; the pictures lack unity; national unity). 2 harmony or concord between persons etc. (lived together in unity). 3 a thing forming a complex whole (a person regarded as a unity). 4 Math. the number 'one', the factor that leaves unchanged the quantity on which it operates. 5 Theatr. each of the three dramatic principles requiring limitation of the supposed time of a drama to that occupied in acting it or to a single day (unity of time), use of one scene throughout (unity of place), and concentration on the development of a single plot (unity of action). Etymology: ME f. OF unit{eacute} f. L unitas -tatis f. unus one
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noun (plural -ties) see: one Date: 14th century 1. the quality or state of not being multiple ; oneness, b. a definite amount taken as one or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation , identity element, 2. a condition of harmony ; accord, continuity without deviation or change (as in purpose or action), 3. the quality or state of being made one ; unification, a combination or ordering of parts in a literary or artistic production that constitutes a whole or promotes an undivided total effect, a totality of related parts ; an entity that is a complex or systematic whole, any of three principles of dramatic structure derived by French classicists from Aristotle's Poetics and requiring a play to have a single action represented as occurring in one place and within one day, a 20th century American religious movement that emphasizes spiritual sources of health and prosperity ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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