uniform

adjective

1. 1

   Unvarying; all the same.

   "Chocolate and cream," the standard colours of G.W.R. rolling stock for 21 years, are now being replaced by an all-over utility coating of reddish-brown. This is the third time that a uniform brown has been adopted as the standard livery of G.W.R. carriages.

   Some exponents of these ideas went so far as to maintain that the perfect society required all its members to be completely uniform in all respects-not only their rights and duties, but their way of life and thought, food and clothing, and even (according to Dom Deschamps and others) their physical appearance.

2. 2

   Consistent; conforming to one standard.

   The only doubt is, about the manner of their unity; how far Churches are bound to be uniform in their Ceremonies, and what way they ought to take for that purpose.

3. 3

   with speed of convergence not depending on choice of function argument; as in uniform continuity, uniform convergence

4. 4

   Composed of a single macromolecular species.

5. 5

   (of a polyhedron) That is isogonal and whose faces are regular polygons; (of an n-dimensional (n>3) polytope) that is isogonal and whose bounding (n-1)-dimensional facets are uniform polytopes.

noun

1. 1

   A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group, company, prison inmates, etc.

   The Hooverette [housedress] can be worn as a dress or as an apron. This is the latest in uniforms, madam, according to Vogue.

   ‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”.[…]’.

   F. W. Robertson There are many things which a soldier will do in his plain clothes which he scorns to do in his uniform.

   Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.[…]There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. […]

2. 2

   A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective).

   Skeletor held the gun against Speedo’s head, held Speedo between himself and the cops who stood, motionless and futile, where they’d stopped. Robinson, Lindfors, Carter, three uniforms and I watched helpless as Skeletor, dragging Speedy with him, inched out the gate, started backing down the hill.

   Four men flew out of it, three uniforms and one in what appeared to be an English riding outfit—boots, whip, the whole nine yards. […] He called out, “I’m the superintendent of police.”

   Eyes to the front now and there was the body, a lump of black and brown. Moon counted three uniforms and a photographer, the medical examiner and his assistant.

3. 3

   In OpenGL, a global shader variable whose value does not change between rendering calls, serving as a parameter.

   2009, Randi J. Rost, Bill Licea-Kane, Dan Ginsburg, OpenGL Shading Language Hence, uniforms of the same name in a vertex and fragment program will be the same uniform variable. Uniforms cannot be written to in a shader. This is sensible because an array of processors may be sharing the same resources […]

4. 4

   Variant of Uniform from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic AlphabetAlternative letter-case form of Uniform from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

verb

1. 1

   To clothe in a uniform.

   You can't erect an army by uniforming and drilling a few hundred thousand clerks and farmers.

Forms

plural

uniforms

comparative

more uniform

superlative

most uniform

past tense

uniformed

past participle

uniformed

present participle

uniforming

third person singular

uniforms