Definition of "unity" []

• The state or quality of being one; singleness. (noun)
• The state or quality of being in accord; harmony. (noun)
• The combination or arrangement of parts into a whole; unification. (noun)
• A combination or union thus formed. (noun)
• Singleness or constancy of purpose or action; continuity: "In an army you need unity of purpose” ( Emmeline Pankhurst). (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "This conception, which Geoffroy calls the _Théorie des analogues_ (p. xxxii.), is clearly one part of the old idea of the unity of type; it teaches the _unity of composition_ of organic beings, while the _Principe des connexions_ adds the _unity of plan_."
• "_Quantitative_ Phenomena (totality, multiplicity, relative unity) -- a multiplicity of objects having relative and composite unity, which suggests some relation to an absolute and indivisible _unity_."
• "Barroso says the 27-nation bloc has demonstrated «European unity, and in a certain sense, global unity» as it scrambles to respond to the meltdown."