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UNITING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of making or becoming a single unit
Example:
he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays
Synonyms:
conjugation; jointure; unification; union; uniting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("uniting" is a kind of...):
combination; combining; compounding (the act of combining things to form a new whole)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "uniting"):
coalescence; coalescency; coalition; concretion; conglutination (the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts)
reunification; reunion (the act of coming together again)
tribalisation; tribalization (the act of making tribal; unification on a tribal basis)
umbrella (having the function of uniting a group of similar things)
Derivation:
unite (become one)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The combination of two or more commercial companies
Synonyms:
amalgamation; merger; uniting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("uniting" is a kind of...):
consolidation; integration (the act of combining into an integral whole)
Derivation:
unite (join or combine)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb unite
