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Unvarying; all the same.

Consistent; conforming to one standard.

(mathematics) With speed of convergence not depending on choice of function argument; as in uniform continuity, uniform convergence.

(chemistry, of a polymer) Composed of a single macromolecular species.

(geometry) (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.

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

💬 Quotations
‘ […] 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”. […]’.

(international standards) Uniform from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

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

To clothe in a uniform.

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