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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ís?

Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos

Proto-Italic *oinos

Old Latin oinos

Latin ūnus

Latin ūni-

Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der.?

Latin fōrma

Latin -fōrmis

Latin uniformis

Middle French uniformebor.

English uniform

Borrowed from Middle French uniforme, from Latin uniformis.

Unvarying; all the same. "Chocolate and cream," the standard colours of G.W.R. rolling stock for 21 years, are now being replaced by an all-over utility coating of reddish-brown. This is the third time that a uniform brown has been adopted as the standard livery of G.W.R. carriages.
Consistent; conforming to one standard. The only doubt is, about the manner of their unity; how far Churches are bound to be uniform in their Ceremonies, and what way they ought to take for that purpose.
with speed of convergence not depending on choice of function argument; as in uniform continuity, uniform convergence
Composed of a single macromolecular species.
(of a polyhedron) That is isogonal and whose faces are regular polygons; (of an n-dimensional (n>3) polytope) that is isogonal and whose bounding (n-1)-dimensional facets are uniform polytopes.

A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group, company, prison inmates, etc. The Hooverette [housedress] can be worn as a dress or as an apron. This is the latest in uniforms, madam, according to Vogue.
Alternative letter-case form of Uniform from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.Uniform from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet
A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective). Skeletor held the gun against Speedo’s head, held Speedo between himself and the cops who stood, motionless and futile, where they’d stopped. Robinson, Lindfors, Carter, three uniforms and I watched helpless as Skeletor, dragging Speedy with him, inched out the gate, started backing down the hill.
In OpenGL, a global shader variable whose value does not change between rendering calls, serving as a parameter. 2009, Randi J. Rost, Bill Licea-Kane, Dan Ginsburg, OpenGL Shading Language Hence, uniforms of the same name in a vertex and fragment program will be the same uniform variable. Uniforms cannot be written to in a shader. This is sensible because an array of processors may be sharing the same resource

transitive To clothe in a uniform. You can't erect an army by uniforming and drilling a few hundred thousand clerks and farmers.