- 1統一（政治上，如兩德統一、兩韓統一）；整合、合併（系統或組織）
The act of joining separate things — usually countries, states, groups, or systems — into one. It is the noun for what happens when many become one. You meet it most often in history and : the unification of Germany in 1871, the unification of Italy, talk about the unification of Korea. It carries a sense of something big and official, often after a long split, and often after war or negotiation. Because of that, the word usually sounds serious and a bit formal — a newspaper word, a textbook word, not a word you use about your family. But it does stretch beyond . Companies talk about the unification of two systems when they merge; a designer might talk about the unification of a brand's look. In that use it just means bringing scattered pieces under one roof so they match and work together. Note that it does not always mean everyone was happy about it. A unification can be forced by the strong side, and the word itself stays neutral about that — it only says the pieces ended up as one. Also, English tends to use it for the process or moment of joining, not for the state of being together afterwards; for that you would say unity.
From the word’s history
From unify + -ification, or borrowed from French unification or Italian unificazione.
由 unify 加 -ification，或借自法文、義大利文。
組成unify（使合一）+ -ification（表示「使…發生的過程」的名詞字尾）。unify 本身來自拉丁文 unus「一」+ facere「做、使」——「做成一個」。
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
unificationnoun/ˌjuːnɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
- 1
The act or process of unifying.
- The route between Melbourne and Albury is one of the first scheduled, under the great Australian gauge unification scheme, for conversion to 4 ft. 8½ in., and this will permit through running between Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
- Despite criticisms which were made of the Railway Executive, it must be recalled that the general framework of the new railway set-up was established by statute, while this form of organisation was particularly well adapted for carrying out the unification of the railways—a very different thing from the purely political act of nationalisation, but an essential part of the objective of nationalisation.
- 2
The state of being unified.
- Chinese domination in Manchuria was revived after the unification of China by the Sui Dynasty in a.d. 590, though this could not be called entirely complete because the Kaokouli kingdom could not be subjugated.
- On November 15 our Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed Soviet ambassador Petrov of this decision. At the same time I sent a message to President Harry S. Truman, pointing out that Soviet Russia's treaty violations and bad faith in Manchuria not only were detrimental to China's territorial integrity and unification, but also constituted a serious threat to peace and order in East Asia, and that the only way to prevent any further deterioration of the situation would be for China and the United States to take positive and coordinated actions.
- 3
computercomputingengineeringAn algorithmic process of solving equations between symbolic expressions.
- For any two terms or formulas without quantifiers X and Y, the following holds. (i) The unification algorithm UNIF#95;1, applied to X, Y, terminates after a finite number of steps. (ii) #92;#123;X,Y#92;#125; is unifiable iff UNIF#95;1 so indicates upon termination. Moreover, the substitution σ then available as output is a most general unifier of #92;#123;X,Y#92;#125;.
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