unification

English

Etymology

Either from unify +‎ -ification or from French unification

Noun

unification (countable and uncountable, plural unifications)

1. The act of unifying.
2. The state of being unified.
3. (mathematical logic, computer science) Given two terms, their join with respect to a specialisation order.
   • 1982, Wolfgang Bibel, Automated Theorem Proving, Braunschweig: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, ISBN 3-528-08520-7, page 94:

     5.7.T ( Unification theorem ) For any two terms or formulas
     without quantifiers X and Y, the following holds.
     (i) The unification algorithm UNIF₁, applied to X, Y,
     terminates after a finite number of steps.
     (ii) {X, Y} is unifiable iff UNIF₁ so indicates upon ter-
     mination. Moreover, the substitution σ then available as out-
     put is a most general unifier of {X, Y}.

Derived terms

• unificationist
• unificatory

Antonyms

• division

Translations

act of unifying

• Arabic: تَوْحِيد‏‎ m (tawḥīd)
• Armenian: միասնականացում (hy) (miasnakanacʿum)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 統一 (zh), 统一 (zh) (tǒngyī)

• Czech: sjednocení n
• Dutch: eenwording (nl) f
• Finnish: yhdistyminen (fi), yhdistäminen (fi)
• French: unification (fr) f
• Georgian: გაერთიანება (gaertianeba), უნიფიკაცია (unipiḳacia)
• German: Vereinigung (de) f
• Greek: ενοποίηση (el) f (enopoíisi)
• Ido: unigado
• Italian: unificazione (it) f

• Japanese: 統一 (ja) (tōitsu)
• Korean: 통일 (ko) (tong-il) (統一)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: یه‌کگرتن‏‎ (yekgirtin)

• Malay: penyatuan (ms)
• Portuguese: unificação (pt) f
• Romanian: unificare (ro) f
• Russian: объедине́ние (ru) n (obʺjedinénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: co-aonachadh m
• Spanish: unificación (es) f
• Vietnamese: thống nhất (vi) (統一)
• Yiddish: פֿאַראייניקונג‏‎ f (fareynikung)

state of being unified

• Czech: sjednocení n
• Georgian: გაერთიანებულობა (gaertianebuloba)
• Greek: ένωση (el) f (énosi)
• Ido: unigo (io)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: یه‌کگرتو‏‎ (yekgirtu)

• Portuguese: união (pt) f
• Scottish Gaelic: co-aonachadh m

in mathematical logic or computer science

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} vereniging, ^{(please verify)} eenmaking

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} unuigo, ^{(please verify)} unuiĝo

See also

• reunification

Further reading

• unification in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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French

Etymology

unifier +‎ -ification

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.ni.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

Noun

unification f (plural unifications)

1. unification

Further reading

• “unification” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).