unification
n. uncountablen. the process of joining two or more separate things together to make them one single group or country.
n. the process of being united or made into a whole. Often refers to the merging of political entities or the integration of disparate elements into a single system.
The unification of the two companies took several months.
Historians often study the political unification of Germany in the 19th century as a turning point in European power dynamics.
The proposed theory seeks the unification of quantum mechanics and general relativity, aiming to describe all physical phenomena within a single mathematical framework.
Either: * from unify + -ification (suffix forming nouns denoting acts or processes whereby subjects become something else); or * borrowed from French unification; or * borrowed from Italian unificazione.
Often followed by the preposition 'of' to indicate the entities being joined.
- Nounreunification
- Noununification