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uniformity

1. The quality or state of being uniform; freedom from variation or difference; resemblance to itself at all times; sameness of action, effect, etc, under like conditions; even tenor; as, the uniformity of design in a poem; the uniformity of nature.

2. Consistency; sameness; as, the uniformity of a man's opinions.

3. Similitude between the parts of a whole; as, the uniformity of sides in a regular figure; beauty is said to consist in uniformity with variety.

4. Continued or unvaried sameness or likeness.

5. Conformity to a pattern or rule; resemblance, consonance, or agreement; as, the uniformity of different churches in ceremonies or rites. Act of Uniformity, an act of Parliament, passed in 1661, prescribing the form of public prayers, administration of sacraments, and other rites of the Established Church of England. Its provisions were modified by the Act of Uniformity Amendment Act, of 1872.

Origin: L. Uniformitas: cf. F. Uniformite.


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Fixing my own sleeping problem

... (it's easy to imagine more paradoxes in this state of mind). For example, I can go into a trance-like state walking down a hallway because of the uniformity of the lights and doors. Similarly i can stare at the screen-saver with the bouncing linces for hours. Physiologically, I can tell that my ...

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by AstusAleator
Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:55 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Fixing my own sleeping problem
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Re: RATIOS?

... the ratio is if its Rr Rr Rr Rr or Rr Rr rr rr PLEASE HELLPPP Theres no ratio. The situation which you describe is sometimes called Mendels law of uniformity because all the progeny show the phenotype of the dominant allele, so it can be a tool to find out which allele is dominant. A progeny with ...

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by Ultrashogun
Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:04 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: phenotype and genotype ratio
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The Fiber Disease

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by RANDY
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The Fiber Disease

... dB. Cooking oil and soldering oil coatings were also found to reduce acoustic reflection in the fiber but with an increase of noise due to its non-uniformity. These results indicate the dependency of acoustic reflection on fiber cladding diameter and uniform material coating. The experimental results ...

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by Nadas Moksha
Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:03 pm
 
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Did death evolve?

Good q. Bacts have death, viruses do , fungi probab ly don't have it. So, there is no uniformity . I think, it really didn't occur the way u have stated. One more IMP point See the early organisms were just envolope of biomolecules with meatabolism occuring inside. ...

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by 2810712
Thu Apr 07, 2005 7:40 am
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: Did death evolve?
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