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unitize

American  
[yoo-ni-tahyz] / ˈju nɪˌtaɪz /
especially British, unitise

verb (used with object)

unitized, unitizing
  1. to form or combine into one unit, as by welding parts together.

    a car with a unitized body.

  2. to divide or separate into units.


unitize British  
/ ˈjuːnɪˌtaɪz /

verb

  1. to convert (an investment trust) into a unit trust

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

Etymology

Origin of unitize

First recorded in 1840–50; unit + -ize

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The more individuality and complexity have threatened to outreach the mental powers and become unmanageable, the more have order and organization shown their ability to subordinate and unitize the seeming diversity of elements.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

There is no presiding power to rule and subordinate the tumultuous and refractory elements of his character, and thus unitize the mental organism and its manifestations.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

The car will be of "unitized" construction, i.e., the body and frame a single unit welded together.

From Time Magazine Archive

First, a unitized grid stringer system, made from infused, high-density composite foam impregnated with fiberglass, is placed inside the hull mold along with dry fiberglass.

From Time Magazine Archive

Price $148,038 w/ twin four-stroke Yamaha F250 outboardsThe unitized hull had no shakes, sliced the waves and was stable on the drift.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus did the idea of one God eventually swallow up all the others; and the god-idea was completely unitized.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

But who will say that the cultured man of this age is less a balanced, unitized creature than the child of the cradle, or of the forest?

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Thus does the unitizing element of government gather strength with the progress of political movement.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

There are, at the same time, other unitizing conceptions of the god-idea.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Great minds are at this moment occupied in the discovery and verification of these great unitizing laws.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

The organizing and unitizing spirit was gone;—the good and wise father, who made all happy and cheerful about him, and held his little household together in the sweet bonds of perfect order and peace.

From In Both Worlds by Holcombe, William Henry

These diversified interests, we repeat, create interrelation and dependence, unitizing the commercial and industrial polity; and the political organization should, as far as possible, be coextensive therewith.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

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