UNITING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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)

-ing form of the verb unite