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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Regulation \Reg'u*la"tion\ (-l?"sh?n), noun
1. The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.
The temper and regulation of our own minds. --Macaulay.
2. A rule or order prescribed for management or government; prescription; a regulating principle; a governing direction; precept; law; as, the regulations of a society or a school.
{Regulation sword}, {cap}, {uniform}, etc. (Mil.), a sword, cap, uniform, etc., of the kind or quality prescribed by the official regulations.
Syn: {Law}; rule; method; principle; order; precept. See {Law}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Uniform \U"ni*form\, adjective [L. uniformis; unus one + forma from: cf. F. uniforme.]
1. Having always the same form, manner, or degree; not varying or variable; unchanging; consistent; equable; homogenous; as, the dress of the Asiatics has been uniform from early ages; the temperature is uniform; a stratum of uniform clay. --Whewell.
2. Of the same form with others; agreeing with each other; conforming to one rule or mode; consonant.
The only doubt is . . . how far churches are bound to be uniform in their ceremonies. --Hooker.
{Uniform matter}, that which is all of the same kind and texture; homogenous matter.
{Uniform motion}, the motion of a body when it passes over equal spaces in equal times; equable motion. --Hutton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Uniform \U"ni*form\, noun [F. uniforme. See {Uniform}, adjective] A dress of a particular style or fashion worn by persons in the same service or order by means of which they have a distinctive appearance; as, the uniform of the artillery, of the police, of the Freemasons, etc.
There are many things which, a soldier will do in his plain clothes which he scorns to do in his uniform. --F. W. Robertson.
{In full uniform} (Mil.), wearing the whole of the prescribed uniform, with ornaments, badges of rank, sash, side arms, etc.
{Uniform sword}, an officer's sword of the regulation pattern prescribed for the army or navy.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Uniform \U"ni*form\, verb (used with an object)
1. To clothe with a uniform; as, to uniform a company of soldiers.
2. To make conformable. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
uniform
adjective
1: always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences; "a street of uniform tall white buildings" [syn: {unvarying}] [ant: {multiform}]
2: the same throughout in structure or composition; "bituminous coal is often treated as a consistent and homogeneous product" [syn: {consistent}]
3: not differentiated [syn: {undifferentiated}] [ant: {differentiated}]
4: evenly spaced; "at regular (or uniform) intervals"
noun: clothing of distinctive design worn by members of a particular group as a means of identification
verb: provide with uniforms; "The guards were uniformed"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
299 Moby Thesaurus words for "uniform": OD, a certain, accordant, affirmative, agnate, agreeable, agreeing, akin, alike, an, analogous, answerable, any, any one, armory, arranged, articulated, at one, atomic, austere, automatic, badge, badge of office, badges, balanced, bare, basic, baton, blazonry, blues, brassard, businesslike, button, cap and gown, catenated, ceaseless, chain, chain of office, chaste, class ring, cockade, coequal, coexistent, coexisting, coherent, coincident, coinciding, collar, commensurate, comparable, compatible, concatenated, concordant, concurring, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, connected, consentaneous, consentient, consistent, consonant, constant, continentals, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, cooperating, cooperative, coordinate, correspondent, corresponding, costume, cross, cyclical, decoration, direct, downy, dress, dress whites, eagle, either, elementary, emblems, en rapport, endless, ensigns, equable, equal, equilateral, equivalent, essential, eurythmic, even, exclusive, fasces, fatigues, featureless, figurehead, finished, flat, fleur-de-lis, formal, full dress, fundamental, gapless, glabrate, glabrescent, glabrous, habit, habitual, hammer and sickle, harmonious, heraldry, homely, homespun, homogeneous, identical, immediate, immutable, in accord, in agreement, in hand, in rapport, in sync, in synchronization, inaccordance, incessant, indiscernible, indistinct, indistinctive, indistinguishable, individual, indivisible, inharmony, insignia, integral, interchangeable, interminable, invariable, irreducible, joined, jointless, khaki, lapel pin, leiotrichous, level, like, like-minded, linked, livery, lone, mace, mantle, markings, measured, mechanical, medal, mere, methodic, methodical, monadic, monistic, monolithic, monotonous, mortarboard, never-ending, nonstop, normal, of a piece, of like mind, of one mind, old school tie, olive-drab, on all fours, one, ordered, orderly, outfit, parallel, perennial, periodic, persistent, pin, plain, plane, positive, primal, primary, proportionate, proportioned, pure, pure and simple, reconcilable, recurrent, regalia, regimentals, regimented, regular, regular as clockwork, repetitive, ring, robotlike, rose, round-the-clock, routine, running, school ring, seamless, self-consistent, serried, severe, shamrock, sigillography, simon-pure, simple, single, singular, skull and crossbones, smooth, smooth-shaven, smooth-textured, sole, solid, solitary, spare, sphragistics, stabile, stable, staff, standard, stark, steadfast, steady, stereotyped, straight, stripes, suave, swastika, symbiotic, symmetric, symmetrical, synchronized, synchronous, systematic, tartan, thistle, tie, twenty-four-hour, unadorned, unalterable, unaltered, unanalyzable, unanimous, unbroken, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, uncluttered, undeviating, undifferenced, undifferentiated, undiscriminated, undistinguishable, undistinguished, undiversified, undivided, undress, unending, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unique, unisonant, unisonous, unitary, unrelieved, unremitting, unrough, unroughened, unruffled, unstopped, unvaried, unvarying, usual, verge, wand, well-balanced, well-ordered, well-regulated, well-set, well-set-up, whites, whole, without distinction
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
UNIFORM An intermediate language developed for reverse engineering both {COBOL} and {Fortran}. ["The REDO Compendium", H. van Zuylen ed, Wiley 1993]. (1994-12-06)
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