uniform

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   evenly spaced

   at regular (or uniform) intervals

2. 2
   verb

   provide with uniforms

   The guards were uniformed

3. 3
   adj

   Unvarying; all the same.

   "Chocolate and cream," the standard colours of G.W.R. rolling stock for 21 years, are now being replaced by an all-over utility coating of reddish-brown. This is the third time that a uniform brown has been adopted as the standard livery of G.W.R. carriages.

4. 4
   adj

   Consistent; conforming to one standard.

   The only doubt is, about the manner of their unity; how far Churches are bound to be uniform in their Ceremonies, and what way they ought to take for that purpose.

5. 5
   noun

   A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group, company, prison inmates, etc.

   The Hooverette [housedress] can be worn as a dress or as an apron. This is the latest in uniforms, madam, according to Vogue.

6. 6
   noun

   A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective).

   Skeletor held the gun against Speedo’s head, held Speedo between himself and the cops who stood, motionless and futile, where they’d stopped. Robinson, Lindfors, Carter, three uniforms and I watched helpless as Skeletor, dragging Speedy with him, inched out the gate, started backing down the hill.

7. 7
   noun

   In OpenGL, a global shader variable whose value does not change between rendering calls, serving as a parameter.

   2009, Randi J. Rost, Bill Licea-Kane, Dan Ginsburg, OpenGL Shading Language Hence, uniforms of the same name in a vertex and fragment program will be the same uniform variable. Uniforms cannot be written to in a shader. This is sensible because an array of processors may be sharing the same resources […]

8. 8
   verb

   To clothe in a uniform.

   You can't erect an army by uniforming and drilling a few hundred thousand clerks and farmers.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French uniforme, from Latin uniformis.