- 1一致性、統一性（品質、標準上的整齊劃一）；千篇一律（帶貶意時）
The quality of everything in a group being the same — same size, same shape, same colour, same way of doing things. It is the noun you use when itself is the topic. A factory wants uniformity in its products so every box holds the same thing. A school might want uniformity in how teachers grade, so no student is treated . Here uniformity is a good word: it means fair, reliable, predictable. But it has a second life, and this is where students get surprised. When you use it about people, or about art, buildings, or life, it usually turns negative. "The grey uniformity of the housing blocks" means they are boringly alike. "Uniformity of opinion" hints that nobody is allowed to think differently. So the same word praises a factory and criticises a neighbourhood. The way to feel which one is happening: if is the goal (products, standards, measurements), it is positive; if has replaced variety in something that should be alive and different, it is a complaint. It is a fairly formal word — you meet it in writing, reports, and essays much more than in daily conversation.
組成uni-（一）+ form（形狀）+ -ity（表抽象狀態的名詞字尾）——「同一個形狀的狀態」。經古法文由拉丁文 uniformis 進入英語。
原始詞典資料5 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。
uniformitynoun/ˌjuːnɪˈfɔːmɪti/
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The quality or state of being uniform.
- The buildings are all of brick, of a goodly heigth, and an excellent vniformity in moſt of the ſtreets, the toppes riſing vvith battlements.
- It remaines, that I collect as vvell as I can, thoſe memorials vvhich I find of this expedition ſcattered in diuers places: a vvorke neceſſarie, for that the greatneſſe of this action vvas ſuch, as ought not to bee omitted in a generall Hiſtorie; yet not eaſie, the conſent of thoſe that haue vvritten thereof, being nothing neare to vniformitie.
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The quality or state of being uniform.
- The uniformity of the decor
- Brown was the first livery selected for the company by Brunel nearly 108 years ago, and it continued until October, 1864, when the Directors decided that, to relieve the uniformity, carriages of all classes should be painted white from the waist upwards.
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The quality or state of being uniform.
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geographygeologynatural-sciencesThe quality or state of being uniform.
- It must be granted at once, to the advocates of this geological uniformity, that we are not arbitrarily to assume the existence of catastrophes. The degree of uniformity and continuity with which terromotive forces have acted, must be collected, not from any gratuitous hypothesis, but from the facts of the case.
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lifestylereligionThe quality or state of being uniform.
- Novv, vvhen the father of their Church, vvho gladly vvould heale the ſoare of the daugheer^([sic]) of his people ſoftly and ſleightly, and make the beſt of it, findeth ſo great fault vvith them for their oddes and iarring; vve hope the children haue no great cauſe to vaunt of their vniformitie.
- VVhither Mr. [William] Dell is arrived, let his Sermon againſt Reformation, and his Treatiſe againſt Uniformity vvitneſs.
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