uniformuniform2 ●○○ AWL adjective 
Word Origin
Grade A eggs must be of uniform size.—uniformly adverb
Word OriginWORD ORIGINuniform2
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1500-1600 French uniforme, from Latin uniformis, from uni- + -formis (from forma ‘form’)EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- Grade A vegetables have to be uniform in size and without marks or blemishes.
- The postal system operates a uniform price structure, so it always costs the same to send a letter.
- The temperature must be uniform in every area of the reactor.
- A series of uniform regulations would be promulgated to allow the central government to exert overall budget control.
- Both Acts were to give uniform treatment to the many different forms of credit arrangement.
- Exposing rat cortex to the same stain produces uniform, moderately dense, labelling in the primary visual area.
- However, the distribution of duties was not uniform.
- In detail: The 3M machine produced a uniform pink glow on the screen, in areas which should have been white.
- Its uniform colours are grey and white.
- These tall, uniform boxes are set back from the street, isolated by windswept plazas.
- They did not simply react in a uniform manner to the experience of heat.
Longman Language Activatorwhen something is the same in all its parts► uniform
Collocations a thing or group that is uniform has the same appearance or characteristics in all its parts: · The temperature must be uniform in every area of the reactor.· The postal system operates a uniform price structure, so it always costs the same to send a letter.uniform in: · Grade A vegetables have to be uniform in size and without marks or blemishes.
► homogeneous formal having the same characteristics in every part, so that every single person or thing in a group is the same: · Women are not a homogeneous group.· Computers check whether each text is stylistically homogeneous.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► uniformed police
being the same in all its parts or among all its members: · Uniformed police and plain clothes detectives were present in large numbers.
► a school uniform· He was still wearing his school uniform.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► distribution· Each vertex in the coverage was perturbed by selecting random numbers from a uniform distribution, with ranges defined in Table 6.2.
► rate· The sample is placed in a heating block and warmed at a uniform rate.· They were anxious to help regulate competition throughout the product market by establishing uniform rates of pay and standard conditions.
► standard· These topics are typically the subject matter of multilateral treaties which define mutually accepted uniform standards.· Though uniform standards will not be enforced, the agreement calls for joint monitoring of pollution.· On the other hand, the ward staff should adopt a uniform standard and method throughout the hospital.· In the crusade for civil rights, the federal government sets a uniform standard that overrides local prejudices.
► system· In the past, it suffered from not being a single uniform system, and from having severe data security problems.· A uniform system had at last been achieved.
Grade A eggs must be of uniform size.—uniformly adverb