# unify

Pronunciation: US say "YOO-ni-fy" /ˈjuːnɪfaɪ/; UK

## Verb

1. To bring separate parts or groups together into a single whole; to combine or merge them.
   - Simple: To bring separate things or people together so they act as one.
   - _The treaty sought to unify the warring states under one government._
   - _Engineers worked to unify the company's many software systems into a single platform._
2. To merge or come together so that formerly separate things form a single whole.
   - Simple: To come together and become a single thing or group.
   - _The rival factions agreed to unify under a common banner._
   - _Over centuries, the small kingdoms gradually unified into a single empire._

## Origin

From Middle French unifier, itself from Late Latin unificare.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/unify (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).