Unity

Whatever we can consider as one thing suggests to the understanding the idea of unity. Locks.

* Unity is affirmed of a simple substance or indivisible monad, or of several particles or parts so intimately and closely united as to constitute a separate body or thing. See the Synonyms under Union.

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Ps. cxxxiii. 1.

* The number 1, when it is not applied to any particular thing, is generally called unity.

* In the Greek drama, the three unities required were those of action, of time, and of place; that is, that there should be but one main plot; that the time supposed should not exceed twenty-four hours; and that the place of the action before the spectators should be one and the same throughout the piece.

&fist] The properties of it are derived from its unity, which is fourfold; unity of interest, unity of title, unity of time, and unity of possession; in other words, joint tenants have one and the same interest, accruing by one and the same conveyance, commencing at the same time, and held by one and the same undivided possession. Unity of possession is also a joint possession of two rights in the same thing by several titles, as when a man, having a lease of land, afterward buys the fee simple, or, having an easement in the land of another, buys the servient estate.

At unity, at one. -- Unity of type. (Biol.) See under Type.

Syn. -- Union; oneness; junction; concord; harmony. See Union.