uniforms

Noun

uniform (plural uniforms)

1. 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.1932, Elmer Wheeler, Tested Selling Sentences (the Language of the Brain): Master Book
2. 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.1996, S. J. Rozan, Concourse, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 265
3. In OpenGL, a global shader variable whose value does not change between rendering calls, serving as a parameter.
   • 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 […]2009, Randi J. Rost, Bill Licea-Kane, Dan Ginsburg, OpenGL Shading Language

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