unitizationn.

1842 Promethean Feb. 26/3 The unitization of the..intellectual..and animal wants of the human being, must be effected by the operation of the unitary..divine nature in humanity.

1864 Continental Monthly Mar. 283/1 European diplomacy..seeks to bind the nations together... Unitization is therefore in the line of political development.

1906 Humanitarian Rev. Nov. 419 That unitization of mental action we call consciousness.

1960 A. Rothstein & B. N. Ponomarev Hist. Communist Party of Soviet Union 228 Interests of the working class demanded the unitization..of the workers..in common proletarian organisations.

1919 Mississippi Valley Mag. Aug. 11 The standardization of freight handling and the unitization of transfer containers will be important factors.

1953 Times 20 Jan. 2/5 Addresses will be given on..‘Packaging and air freight’, and ‘Packaging and unitization’.

1967 D. Wilson Use of Expendable Pallets 1 There has to be a common denominator of any method of unitisation i.e. that it is capable of being lifted and moved by fork-lift truck.

1981 E. Corlett Revol. Merchant Shipping 12/1 Militating against the spread of container unitisation was the lack of infra-structure.

2001 Ships Monthly Mar. 20/2 This had followed a period of experimentation with unitisation, palletisation and the use of early forms of container.

1929 Times 4 Dec. 13/4 The board of directors of the American Petroleum Institute..endorsed the principle of the unitization of oil pools to control production.

1938 D. Hager Pract. Oil Geol. (ed. 5) ix. 263 Unitization as an ideal is fine for the oil producer.

1952 South Western Reporter (U.S.) 2nd Ser. 249 917/1 Respondents suggest that the conclusion we have reached will discourage the making of unitization agreements.

1977 Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 26 353 Discussions are already under way between Norway and the United Kingdom on the unitisation of the Statfjord oil and gas field.

2007 S. LeVine Oil & Glory xi. 192 The Azeris backed off the attempt to jettison unitization.

1965 Child Devel. 36 772 Recent work..using the associative clustering method to study G.A. Miller's..unitization (Chunk) hypothesis of human memory.., emphasized the need for more analysis of this method.

1976 R. M. Shiffrin in W. K. Estes Handbk. Learning & Cognitive Processes IV. iv. 196 Unitization is the grouping of features into a single unit so that the simultaneous presence of all (or almost all) the features causes the perception of the higher order unit.

1985 R. L. West et al. in R. Cohen Devel. Spatial Cognition ii. 24 These data suggest that unitization..facilitates performance by increasing the extent to which items are integrated in memory.

2008 R. W. Langacker Cognitive Gram. x. 342 Unitization reflects our propensity to conceptualize the world in terms of discrete objects that we can apprehend as wholes and deal with individually.

1974 Director Oct. 46/2 Unitisation of such funds has been a popular solution for several years.

1982 Observer 7 Feb. 20/1 Fleming..may well find that unitisation cannot be avoided in respect of some of the trusts.

1993 Independent 20 Jan. 21/1 This led to the unitisation of three trusts which were standing at deep discounts to their NAV.

2005 Sunday Times (Scotl.) 20 Mar. Business 3 A unitisation of the trust would ultimately increase the expense ratio.