unitary
IPA: jˈunɪtɛri
noun
- (UK) A unitary council.
- (mathematics) A unitary matrix or operator.
adjective
- Having the quality of oneness.
- (government, of a system of government or administration) That concentrates power in a single body, rather than sharing it with more local bodies.
- (mathematics, of an algebra) That contains an identity element.
- (mathematics, linear algebra, mathematical analysis, of a matrix or operator) Whose inverse is equal to its adjoint.
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Examples of "unitary" in Sentences
- The Unitary Executive makes a case for 'unitary' - but not for 'executive.'
- But you have a different view with regards to the role of the executive now, an enhanced role, what they called the unitary presidency.
- Now the capitalists not only favor 'fraternity' but also 'unity', as the Club of Rome suggest a while ago, that is, a unitary World State.
- They make clear, for instance, that the phrase "unitary executive" is a code word for a doctrine that favors nearly unlimited executive power.
- George Bush used the same demagoguery, the same false claims and accusations to scare the people of the United States into giving him dictatorial powers, what he calls the unitary presidency.
- In fact, I'd be willing to bet that if you polled the American public today and asked them if they even knew what the phrase unitary executive means, fewer than 2% of the country would have a clue what you're talking about.
- And, so the process of the renormalization could be made, you could calculate everything in terms of the experimental mass and then take the limit and the apparent difficulty that the unitary is violated temporarily seems to disappear.
- As the leader of Bush'slegal team and Cheney's chief of staff, Addington was thebiggest proponentof some of Bush's mostnotoriouslegal abuses, such astortureand warrantless surveillance, and is aloyal followerof the so-called unitary executive theory.
- While it has meant that economic problems can rarely be answered by optimum solutions, which may at least occasionally be approximated in unitary states, the varied interests of the very different regions of this vast land have usually, in the long run, been accommodated in the working out of the compromises by which our country survives problems even if it does not wholly resolve them.
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