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un·ion

[yoon-yuh

n] Pronunciation Key

–noun

1.	the act of uniting two or more things.

2.	the state of being united.

3.	something formed by uniting two or more things; combination.

4.	a number of persons, states, etc., joined or associated together for some common purpose: student union; credit union.

5.	a group of states or nations united into one political body, as that of the American colonies at the time of the Revolution, that of England and Scotland in 1707, or that of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801.

6.	the Union. the United States: The Union defeated the Confederacy in 1865.

7.	a device emblematic of union, used in a flag or ensign, sometimes occupying the upper corner next to the staff or occupying the entire field.

8.	the act of uniting or an instance of being united in marriage or sexual intercourse: an ideal union; an illicit union.

9.	an organization of workers; a labor union.

10.

Mathematics.

a.	Also called join, logical sum, sum. the set consisting of elements each of which is in at least one of two or more given sets. Symbol: ∪

b.	the least upper bound of two elements in a lattice.

11.	the process or result of merging or integration of disjoined, severed, or fractured elements, as the healing of a wound or broken bone, the growing together of the parts in a plant graft, the fusion of pieces in a welding process, or the like.

12.	the junction or location at which the merging process has taken place.

13.	any of various contrivances for connecting parts of machinery or the like.

14.

Textiles.

a.	a fabric of two kinds of yarn.

b.	a yarn of two or more fibers.

[Origin: 1400–50; late ME < MF < LL ūniōn- (s. of ūniō), equiv. to L ūn(us) one + -iōn- -ion

]

—Synonyms 1. Union, unity agree in referring to a oneness, either created by putting together, or by being undivided. A union is a state of being united, a combination, as the result of joining two or more things into one: to promote the union between two families; the Union of England and Scotland. Unity is the state or inherent quality of being one, single, individual, and indivisible (often as a consequence of union): to find unity in diversity; to give unity to a work of art. 5. See alliance. 8. wedlock; liaison.

—Antonyms 1, 2. separation, division.

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Un·ion

[yoon-yuh

n] Pronunciation Key

–noun

1.	a township in NE New Jersey. 50,184.

2.	a city in NW South Carolina. 10,523.

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un·ion (yōōn'yən) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. The act of uniting or the state of being united.
2. A combination so formed, especially an alliance or confederation of people, parties, or political entities for mutual interest or benefit.
3. The state of matrimony; marriage: "The element that was to make possible such a union was trust in each other's love" (Kate Chopin).
4. Sexual intercourse.
5. A combination of parishes for joint administration of relief for the poor in Great Britain.
6. A workhouse maintained by such a union.
7. An organization at a college or university that provides facilities for recreation; a student union.
8. A building housing such facilities.
Mathematics A set, every member of which is an element of one or another of two or more given sets.
Agreement or harmony resulting from the uniting of individuals; concord.
1. The state of matrimony; marriage: "The element that was to make possible such a union was trust in each other's love" (Kate Chopin).
2. Sexual intercourse.
3. A combination of parishes for joint administration of relief for the poor in Great Britain.
4. A workhouse maintained by such a union.
5. An organization at a college or university that provides facilities for recreation; a student union.
6. A building housing such facilities.
1. A combination of parishes for joint administration of relief for the poor in Great Britain.
2. A workhouse maintained by such a union.
3. An organization at a college or university that provides facilities for recreation; a student union.
4. A building housing such facilities.
A labor union.
A coupling device for connecting parts, such as pipes or rods.
A device on a flag or ensign, occupying the upper inner corner or the entire field, that signifies the union of two or more sovereignties.
often Union
1. An organization at a college or university that provides facilities for recreation; a student union.
2. A building housing such facilities.
Union The United States of America regarded as a national unit, especially during the Civil War.

adj.

Union Of, relating to, or loyal to the United States of America during the Civil War: a Union soldier.
Of or relating to a labor union or labor union organizing: the union movement; union negotiations.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōn-, from Latin ūnus, one; see oi-no- in Indo-European roots.]

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A community of northeast New Jersey west-northwest of Elizabeth. Settled c. 1749 by colonists from Connecticut, it is a manufacturing center. Population: 55,300.

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1410, "action of joining one thing to another," from O.Fr. union (12c.), from L.L. unionem (nom. unio) "oneness, unity, a uniting," also in L. meaning "a single pearl or onion," from unus "one," from PIE *oinos (see one). Sense of "action of uniting into one political body" is attested from 1547. Meaning "group of people or states" is from 1660. Short for trade union, it is recorded from 1833. U.S. political sense is attested from 1775; used especially during the Civil War, in ref. to the remainder of the United States after the Southern secession. Unionize "make into a union" is attested from 1841.

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union
adjective
1.	being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War; "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman"
2.	of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract" [ant: nonunion]
noun
1.	an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job"
2.	the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War); "he has visited every state in the Union"; "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union"; "the North's superior resources turned the scale"
3.	the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring" [syn: coupling]
4.	the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union" [ant: separation]
5.	the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union" [syn: marriage]
6.	healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
7.	a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; "the Soviet Union"
8.	a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets; "let C be the union of the sets A and B"
9.	the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"
10.	a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
11.	the act of making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays" [ant: disunion]

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union (y

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A set whose members belong to at least one of a group of two or more given sets. The union of the sets {1,2,3} and {3,4,5} is the set {1,2,3,4,5}, and the union of the sets {6,7} and {11,12,13} is the set {6,7,11,12,13}. The symbol for union is . Compare intersection.

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Union

The United States; especially the northern states during the Civil War, which remained with the original United States government. (Compare Confederacy.)

[Chapter:] American History to 1865

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union
1. An operation on two sets which returns the set of all elements that are a member of either or both of the argument sets; normally written as an infix upper-case U symbol. The operator generalises to zero or more sets by taking the union of the current partial result (initially the empty set) with the next argument set, in any order.
For example, (a, b, c) U (c, d, e) = (a, b, c, d, e)
2. A type whose values may be of one of a number of other types, thet current type depending on conditions that are only known at run-time. A variable of union type must be allocated sufficient storage space to hold the largest component type. Some unions include extra information to say which type of value the union currently has (a "tagged union"), others rely on the program to keep track of this independently.
A union contrasts with a structure or record which stores values of all component types at once.
3. An SQL operator that concatenates two result sets, that must have the same number and types of columns. The operator may be followed by the word "ALL" to indicate that results that appear in both sets should appear twice in the output.
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Union City, IN (city, FIPS 77768) Location: 40.20161 N, 84.81748 W
Population (1990): 3612 (1659 housing units)
Area: 3.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 47390

Union City, PA (borough, FIPS 78448) Location: 41.89607 N, 79.84467 W
Population (1990): 3537 (1477 housing units)
Area: 4.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 16438

Union City, TN (city, FIPS 75940) Location: 36.42252 N, 89.05096 W
Population (1990): 10513 (4609 housing units)
Area: 22.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 38261

Union Mills, NC Zip code(s): 28167

Union Mills, IN Zip code(s): 46382

Union Hall, VA Zip code(s): 24176

Union Grove, WI (village, FIPS 81775) Location: 42.68419 N, 88.05099 W
Population (1990): 3669 (1321 housing units)
Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 53182

Union Grove, NC Zip code(s): 28689

Union Grove, AL (town, FIPS 77784) Location: 34.40000 N, 86.44606 W
Population (1990): 119 (50 housing units)
Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 35175

Union Gap, WA (city, FIPS 73290) Location: 46.55513 N, 120.48738 W
Population (1990): 3120 (1347 housing units)
Area: 10.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 98903

Union Dale, PA (borough, FIPS 78464) Location: 41.71432 N, 75.48389 W
Population (1990): 303 (145 housing units)
Area: 6.5 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 18470

Union Point, GA (city, FIPS 78380) Location: 33.61719 N, 83.07592 W
Population (1990): 1753 (710 housing units)
Area: 5.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 30669

Union City, OK (town, FIPS 75950) Location: 35.40139 N, 97.89849 W
Population (1990): 1000 (423 housing units)
Area: 142.7 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 73090

Union City, OH (village, FIPS 78624) Location: 40.19815 N, 84.79479 W
Population (1990): 1984 (791 housing units)
Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 45390

Union Star, MO (town, FIPS 75130) Location: 39.97944 N, 94.59805 W
Population (1990): 432 (193 housing units)
Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 64494

Union Star, KY Zip code(s): 40171

Union Springs, NY (village, FIPS 76155) Location: 42.84504 N, 76.69333 W
Population (1990): 1142 (501 housing units)
Area: 4.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 13160

Union Springs, AL (city, FIPS 77880) Location: 32.13881 N, 85.71366 W
Population (1990): 3975 (1695 housing units)
Area: 17.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 36089

Union Church, MS Zip code(s): 39668

Union City, CA (city, FIPS 81204) Location: 37.60165 N, 122.01607 W
Population (1990): 53762 (16259 housing units)
Area: 48.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 94587

Union City, GA (city, FIPS 78324) Location: 33.57718 N, 84.54416 W
Population (1990): 8375 (4358 housing units)
Area: 20.8 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 30291

Union Pier, MI Zip code(s): 49129

Union City, MI (village, FIPS 81360) Location: 42.06630 N, 85.14054 W
Population (1990): 1767 (714 housing units)
Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 49094

Union Park, FL (CDP, FIPS 73075) Location: 28.56385 N, 81.23602 W
Population (1990): 6890 (2385 housing units)
Area: 7.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 32817, 32820, 32833

Union Hill, IL (village, FIPS 76771) Location: 41.10930 N, 88.14546 W
Population (1990): 37 (16 housing units)
Area: 0.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Union County, TN (county, FIPS 173) Location: 36.28192 N, 83.83853 W
Population (1990): 13694 (5696 housing units)
Area: 579.1 sq km (land), 61.0 sq km (water)

Union Parish, LA (parish, FIPS 111) Location: 32.82715 N, 92.37757 W
Population (1990): 20690 (9304 housing units)
Area: 2273.2 sq km (land), 71.7 sq km (water)

Union County, OR (county, FIPS 61) Location: 45.31505 N, 118.01127 W
Population (1990): 23598 (9974 housing units)
Area: 5275.0 sq km (land), 4.5 sq km (water)

Union Grove, TX (city, FIPS 74312) Location: 32.58310 N, 94.90846 W
Population (1990): 271 (109 housing units)
Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Union County, SD (county, FIPS 127) Location: 42.83192 N, 96.65154 W
Population (1990): 10189 (4286 housing units)
Area: 1192.4 sq km (land), 17.4 sq km (water)

Union County, SC (county, FIPS 87) Location: 34.69268 N, 81.61654 W
Population (1990): 30337 (12230 housing units)
Area: 1331.8 sq km (land), 4.5 sq km (water)

Union County, PA (county, FIPS 119) Location: 40.96187 N, 77.06466 W
Population (1990): 36176 (12886 housing units)
Area: 820.4 sq km (land), 1.0 sq km (water)

Union Beach, NJ (borough, FIPS 74540) Location: 40.44725 N, 74.16910 W
Population (1990): 6156 (2080 housing units)
Area: 4.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)

Union Bridge, MD (town, FIPS 79350) Location: 39.56820 N, 77.17619 W
Population (1990): 910 (371 housing units)
Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Union Center, WI (village, FIPS 81725) Location: 43.68407 N, 90.26317 W
Population (1990): 197 (90 housing units)
Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Union County, GA (county, FIPS 291) Location: 34.83436 N, 83.99088 W
Population (1990): 11993 (6624 housing units)
Area: 835.8 sq km (land), 16.8 sq km (water)

Union City, NJ (city, FIPS 74630) Location: 40.76711 N, 74.03249 W
Population (1990): 58012 (22592 housing units)
Area: 3.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Union County, AR (county, FIPS 139) Location: 33.17029 N, 92.59444 W
Population (1990): 46719 (20276 housing units)
Area: 2691.0 sq km (land), 42.4 sq km (water)

Union County, FL (county, FIPS 125) Location: 30.04265 N, 82.37403 W
Population (1990): 10252 (2975 housing units)
Area: 622.4 sq km (land), 24.4 sq km (water)

Union County, IA (county, FIPS 175) Location: 41.02767 N, 94.24208 W
Population (1990): 12750 (5622 housing units)
Area: 1099.2 sq km (land), 4.1 sq km (water)

Union County, IL (county, FIPS 181) Location: 37.46890 N, 89.25607 W
Population (1990): 17619 (7408 housing units)
Area: 1077.9 sq km (land), 15.4 sq km (water)

Union County, OH (county, FIPS 159) Location: 40.30510 N, 83.37452 W
Population (1990): 31969 (11599 housing units)
Area: 1131.0 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water)

Union County, NM (county, FIPS 59) Location: 36.47553 N, 103.47081 W
Population (1990): 4124 (2299 housing units)
Area: 9920.3 sq km (land), 2.0 sq km (water)

Union County, NJ (county, FIPS 39) Location: 40.65973 N, 74.30802 W
Population (1990): 493819 (187033 housing units)
Area: 267.5 sq km (land), 5.6 sq km (water)

Union County, NC (county, FIPS 179) Location: 34.98808 N, 80.53332 W
Population (1990): 84211 (30760 housing units)
Area: 1650.9 sq km (land), 5.8 sq km (water)

Union County, MS (county, FIPS 145) Location: 34.48969 N, 89.00411 W
Population (1990): 22085 (9104 housing units)
Area: 1076.2 sq km (land), 3.6 sq km (water)

Union County, KY (county, FIPS 225) Location: 37.65637 N, 87.95432 W
Population (1990): 16557 (6091 housing units)
Area: 893.8 sq km (land), 47.5 sq km (water)

Union County, IN (county, FIPS 161) Location: 39.62276 N, 84.92288 W
Population (1990): 6976 (2813 housing units)
Area: 418.4 sq km (land), 9.6 sq km (water)

Union, NE (village, FIPS 49635) Location: 40.81468 N, 95.92073 W
Population (1990): 299 (125 housing units)
Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 68455

Union, NH Zip code(s): 03887

Union, NJ (CDP, FIPS 74510) Location: 40.69530 N, 74.26974 W
Population (1990): 50024 (19334 housing units)
Area: 23.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 07083

Union, OH (city, FIPS 78470) Location: 39.90270 N, 84.30992 W
Population (1990): 5501 (1826 housing units)
Area: 6.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 45322

Union, OR (city, FIPS 75850) Location: 45.20901 N, 117.86713 W
Population (1990): 1847 (802 housing units)
Area: 6.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 97883

Union, SC (city, FIPS 73105) Location: 34.72280 N, 81.62381 W
Population (1990): 9836 (4158 housing units)
Area: 19.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 29379

Union, WA Zip code(s): 98592

Union, WV (town, FIPS 81940) Location: 37.59063 N, 80.54319 W
Population (1990): 566 (296 housing units)
Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 24983

Union, MS (town, FIPS 75360) Location: 32.57146 N, 89.11631 W
Population (1990): 1875 (829 housing units)
Area: 8.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 39365

Union, MO (city, FIPS 74626) Location: 38.44826 N, 91.01262 W
Population (1990): 5909 (2306 housing units)
Area: 10.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 63084

Union, MI Zip code(s): 49130

Union, ME Zip code(s): 04862

Union, KY (city, FIPS 78384) Location: 38.95291 N, 84.66917 W
Population (1990): 1001 (314 housing units)
Area: 5.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 41091

Union, IL (village, FIPS 76706) Location: 42.23428 N, 88.54351 W
Population (1990): 542 (199 housing units)
Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 60180

Union, IA (city, FIPS 79545) Location: 42.24294 N, 93.06263 W
Population (1990): 448 (223 housing units)
Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 50258

Union, UT (CDP, FIPS 78110) Location: 40.61910 N, 111.87257 W
Population (1990): 13684 (5399 housing units)
Area: 7.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Union, AL (town, FIPS 77616) Location: 32.99343 N, 87.90550 W
Population (1990): 321 (120 housing units)
Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

West Union, SC (town, FIPS 76435) Location: 34.76033 N, 83.04306 W
Population (1990): 260 (131 housing units)
Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 29696

West Union, OH (village, FIPS 84294) Location: 38.79315 N, 83.54366 W
Population (1990): 3096 (1272 housing units)
Area: 5.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 45693

West Union, MN (city, FIPS 69736) Location: 45.80142 N, 95.08333 W
Population (1990): 54 (25 housing units)
Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 56389

West Union, IL Zip code(s): 62477

West Union, WV (town, FIPS 86116) Location: 39.29634 N, 80.77563 W
Population (1990): 830 (440 housing units)
Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 26456

Fork Union, VA Zip code(s): 23055

Mount Union, PA (borough, FIPS 51984) Location: 40.38493 N, 77.88197 W
Population (1990): 2878 (1373 housing units)
Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 17066

Mount Union, IA (city, FIPS 54795) Location: 41.05744 N, 91.39061 W
Population (1990): 140 (56 housing units)
Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 52644

West Union, IA (city, FIPS 84765) Location: 42.95869 N, 91.81262 W
Population (1990): 2490 (1119 housing units)
Area: 6.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

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Union

An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.

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Union

On"ion\, n. [F. ognon, fr. L. unio oneness, unity, a single large pearl, an onion. See One, Union.] (Bot.) A liliaceous plant of the genus Allium (A. cepa), having a strong-flavored bulb and long hollow leaves; also, its bulbous root, much used as an article of food. The name is often extended to other species of the genus.

Onion fish (Zo["o]l.), the grenadier.

Onion fly (Zo["o]l.) a dipterous insect whose larva feeds upon the onion; especially, Anthomyia ceparum and Ortalis flexa.

Welsh onion. (Bot.) See Cibol.

Wild onion (Bot.), a name given to several species of the genus Allium.

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UNION: in Acronym Finder

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