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unitary | trinity |

As an adjective unitary

is having the quality of oneness.

As a noun unitary

is (uk) a unitary council.

As a proper noun trinity is

(christianity) in christian belief, the three persons (personae) of the godhead: father, son and holy spirit.

unitary

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Having the quality of oneness.
  • (government) Relating to a system of government in which sovereign power is concentrated in a single body instead of being shared or possessed by more local bodies.
    • Ex.
  • (mathematics) Pertaining to a unit.
    • Ex.

    Antonyms

    * (government) federalist

    Derived terms

    * unitariness * unitarity

    Noun

    (unitaries)
  • (UK) A unitary council
  • (mathematics) A unitary operator

    • trinity

    English

    Noun

    (trinities)
  • A group or set of three people or things; triad; trio; trine.
  • *
  • *:But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity , earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
  • The state of being three; threeness.

    • Synonyms

    * (group of three) threesome, triad, trio, trine, troika, triumvirate * threeness

    Derived terms

    * nontrinitarian * nontrinitarianism * trinitarian

    See also

    * Trinity * Trinity College * quaternity * Unitarian