mindmap root((UNI)) unicameral Having only one lawmaking chamber.
🌱In China, with its unicameral system of government, a single group of legislators meets to make the laws. 🌳Unicameral means "one-chambered," and the term almost always describes a governing body. Our federal legislature, like those of most democracies, is bicameral, with two legislative （lawmaking） bodies—the Senate and the House of Representatives. And except for Nebraska, all the state legislatures are also bicameral. So why did the nation decide on a bicameral system? Partly in order to keep some power out of the hands of ordinary voters, who the Founding Fathers didn't completely trust. For that reason, the original Constitution states that senators are to be elected by the state legislatures; not until 1914, after passage of a Constitutional amendment, did we first cast direct votes for our senators. unilateral 1、 Done by one person or party; one-sided.
2、 Affecting one side of the body.
🌱The Japanese Constitution of 1947 includes a unilateral rejection of warfare as an option for their country. 🌳The world is a smaller place than it used to be, and we get uncomfortable when a single nation adopts a policy of unilateralism—that is, acting independently with little regard for what the rest of the world thinks. A unilateral invasion of another country, for instance, usually looks like a grab for power and resources. But occasionally the world welcomes a unilateral action, as when the U.S. announced unilateral nuclear-arms reductions in the early 1990s. Previously, such reductions had only happened as part of bilateral （"two-sided"） agreements with the old Soviet Union. Multilateral agreements, on issues such as climate change, often involve most of the world's nations. unison 1、 Perfect agreement.
2、 Sameness of musical pitch.
🌱Unable to read music well enough to harmonize, the village choir sang only in unison. 🌳This word usually appears in the phrase "in unison," which means "together, at the same time" or "at the same musical pitch." So an excited crowd responding to a speaker may shout in unison, and a group of demonstrators may chant in unison. The old church music called Gregorian chant was written to be sung in unison, with no harmonizing voices, and kindergarten kids always sing in unison （at least when they can all find the same pitch）. In a similar way, an aerobics class moves in unison following the instructor, and a group or even a whole town may work in unison when everyone agrees on a common goal. unitarian Relating or belonging to a religious group that believes that God exists only in one person and stresses individual freedom of belief.
🌱With his unitarian tendencies, he wasn't likely to get into fights over religious beliefs. 🌳Unitarianism, originally a sect of Christianity believing in a single or unitaryGod, grew up in 18th-century England and developed in America in the early 19th century. Though they believe in Christ's teaching, they reject the idea of the three-part Trinity—God as father, son, and holy spirit—and thus deny that Christ was divine, so some people don't consider them truly Christian. In this century the Unitarians joined with the UniversalistChurch, a movement founded on a belief in universal salvation—that is, the saving of every soul from damnation after death. Both have always been liberal and fairly small; today they count about half a million members. Without a capital letter, unitarian refers simply to belief in a unitaryGod, or in unity within some nonreligious system.