A finite extension of non-Archimedean local fields is an unramified extension when its ramification index is one and its residue-field degree equals . Equivalently, its maximal ideal is generated by a uniformizer of and its residue-field extension is separable.
A finite extension of number fields is an everywhere unramified extension of number fields when every nonzero prime ideal of is unramified in . Under the convention that includes infinite places, one also requires every real embedding of to remain real.