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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Regulation \Reg`u*la"tion\ (-l?"sh?n), n.
     1. The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.
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              The temper and regulation of our own minds.
                                                    --Macaulay.


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     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.
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     {Regulation sword}, {cap}, {uniform}, etc. (Mil.), a sword,
        cap, uniform, etc., of the kind or quality prescribed by
        the official regulations.
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     Syn: {Law}; rule; method; principle; order; precept. See
          {Law}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Uniform \U"ni*form\, v. t.
     1. To clothe with a uniform; as, to uniform a company of
        soldiers.
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     2. To make conformable. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Uniform \U"ni*form\, a. [L. uniformis; unus one + forma from:
     cf. F. uniforme.]
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     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.
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     2. Of the same form with others; agreeing with each other;
        conforming to one rule or mode; consonant.
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              The only doubt is . . . how far churches are bound
              to be uniform in their ceremonies.    --Hooker.
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     {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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Uniform \U"ni*form\, n. [F. uniforme. See {Uniform}, a.]
     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.
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           There are many things which, a soldier will do in his
           plain clothes which he scorns to do in his uniform.
                                                    --F. W.
                                                    Robertson.
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     {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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  uniform
       adj 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"
       n : clothing of distinctive design worn by members of a
           particular group as a means of identification
       v : 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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