Meaning of unitary in English

unitary

adjective

/ˈjuː.nɪ.tər.i/ us

/ˈjuː.nɪ.ter.i/

of a system of local government in the UK in which official power is given to one organization that deals with all matters in a local area instead of to several organizations that each deal with only a few matters:

unitary authority Wales will be divided into 21 unitary authorities instead of eight counties and 37 districts.

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Examples of unitary

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The details, the technological and formal solutions were drawn into a synthesis and their many elements into a unitary order.

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He notes that disorganized attachment disrupts the construction of a unitary internal working model of the self and the attachment figure.

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The regression analysis below tests whether federal and unitary systems have different degrees of malapportionment.

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Systems of redistribution are characteristic of federal or unitary states rather than of associations of developed nation states.

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This issue was raised because the unitary conductance was apparently quite small - during depolarizing pulses current developed smoothly without discernible single channel events.

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We express measurements with respect to other bases by first applying a unitary transformation corresponding to a change of basis.

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In quantum mechanics, unitary transformations represent reversible evolutions of a system.

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A government of the people was qualitatively different from monarchy or aristocracy, where powerholders were sufficiently unitary that governance could well satisfy them.

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If a unitary action has an eigenvector, then its weakly wandering vectors are clearly not dense.

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Do the various human domains that have evolved have enough in common to be dealt with by a unitary mechanism?

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They seem to assume a unitary entity in charge of making the decisions, one that consistently commits mistakes or acts in bad faith.

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The same logic must apply to parties if their internal discipline is tight enough for them to be regarded as unitary actors.

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This goal had been completed with the abolition of the three estates and the creation of a unitary and sovereign representative assembly.

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Conditions 9 and 10 are immediate consequences of the definition of a unitary operator.

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The lesson, as enough taxpayers, defendants, welfare recipients, immigrants, asylum-seekers, draftees know, is that citizenship is a malleable status not a unitary identity.

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