uniform

Pluraluniforms

Formsuniforms, uniforming, uniformed

1. 1
   nouncountable

   Special matching clothes that show you belong to a group, like a school or team.

   Her school uniform is a white shirt and a gray skirt.

   The soccer players wore their red uniforms with pride.

   Similaroutfit, livery

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2. 2
   adjective

   The same in every part or every case, with no differences.

   Like a box of new crayons that are all exactly the same length.

   Bake the cookies until they are a uniform golden brown.

   The wall needs a uniform coat of paint with no streaks.

   Similarconsistent, even, regular, homogeneous, unvarying

   Oppositevaried, uneven, irregular, variable

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3. 3
   adjective

   Following one standard, so it is done the same way everywhere.

   The new rules make safety checks uniform in every factory.

   The league wants uniform rules so every team plays the same way.

   Similarconsistent, standard, standardized, common

   Oppositeinconsistent, varied, variable

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4. 4
   nouncountable

   A police officer who wears a uniform, not a detective in plain clothes.

   The store owner waved down a uniform on the corner for help.

   Two uniforms arrived first and kept people back from the broken door.

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5. 5
   verbtransitive

   To dress a person or group in matching official clothes.

   The school will uniform all the band members before the parade.

   The airline uniformed its new crew in dark blue jackets.

   Similardress, clothe, outfit

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6. 6
   noun

   Alternative letter-case form of Uniform from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet. It stands for the letter U when people spell words out loud over the radio.

   The dispatcher read the plate as 'uniform kilo four seven' over the radio.

   He answered, 'That's bravo uniform tango,' spelling out his name letter by letter.

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7. 7
   adjective

   In math, happening at the same rate for every input, not faster in some places.

   The sums get close to the true value at a uniform rate, no matter which number you choose.

   Her teacher showed that the error shrinks in a uniform way across the whole graph.

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8. 8
   adjective

   Made of only one kind of large molecule, not a mix of different ones.

   The lab made a uniform plastic in which every long molecule is exactly the same.

   The new glue is uniform because it contains just one kind of giant molecule.

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9. 9
   adjective

   In geometry, having corners that are all alike and faces that are all perfectly regular shapes.

   A cube is uniform because every corner and every square face looks the same.

   The pattern on a soccer ball comes from a uniform solid with corners that all match.

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