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un⋅ion

  [yoon-yuhn]
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–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

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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)   
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.
  2. Mathematics A set, every member of which is an element of one or another of two or more given sets.
  3. 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.
  6. A labor union.
  7. A coupling device for connecting parts, such as pipes or rods.
  8. 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.
  9. often Union
    1. An organization at a college or university that provides facilities for recreation; a student union.
    2. A building housing such facilities.
  10. Union The United States of America regarded as a national unit, especially during the Civil War.
adj.  
  1. Union Of, relating to, or loyal to the United States of America during the Civil War: a Union soldier.
  2. 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: 55,000.
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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.

Union

Un"ion\ (?; 277), n. [F., from L. unio oneness, union, a single large pearl, a kind of onion, fr. unus one. See One, and cf. Onion, Unit.]

1. The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.

Note: Union differs from connection, as it implies that the bodies are in contact, without an inter?ening body; whereas things may be connected by the in???vention of a third body, as by a cord or chain.

2. Agreement and conjunction of mind, spirit, will, affections, or the like; harmony; concord.

3. That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league; as, the weavers have formed a union; trades unions have become very numerous; the United States of America are often called the Union. --A. Hamilton.

4. A textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together.

5. A large, fine pearl. [Obs.]

If they [pearls] be white, great, round, smooth, and weighty . . . our dainties and delicates here at Rome . . . call them unions, as a man would say "singular," and by themselves alone. --Holland.

In the cup an union shall he throw, Richer than that which four successive kings In Denmark's crown have worn. --Shak.

6. A device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field; sometimes, as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a flag having such a device; especially, the flag of Great Britain.

Note: The union of the United States ensign is a cluster of white stars, denoting the union of the States, and, properly, equal in number to that of the States, displayed on a blue field; the fly being composed of alternate stripes of red and white. The union of the British ensign is the three crosses of St. George, St. Andrew, and St. Patrick in combination, denoting the union of England, Scotland and Ireland, displayed on a blue field in the national banner used on shore, on a red, white, or blue field in naval ensigns, and with a white border or fly in the merchant service.

7. (Mach.) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection.

8. (Brewing) A cask suspended on trunnions, in which fermentation is carried on.

Hypostatic union (Theol.) See under Hypostatic.

Latin union. See under Latin.

Legislative Union (Eng. Hist.), the union of Great Britain and Ireland, which took place Jan. 1, 1801.

Union, or Act of Union (Eng. Hist.), the act by which Scotland was united to England, or by which the two kingdoms were incorporated into one, in 1707.

Union by the first, or second, intention. (Surg.) See To heal by the first, or second, intention, under Intention.

Union down (Naut.), a signal of distress at sea made by reversing the flag, or turning its union downward.

Union jack. (Naut.) See Jack, n., 10.

Union joint. (Mech.) (a) A joint formed by means of a union. (b) A piece of pipe made in the form of the letter T.

Syn: Unity; junction; connection; concord; alliance; coalition; combination; confederacy.

Usage: Union, Unity. Union is the act of bringing two or more things together so as to make but one, or the state of being united into one. Unity is a state of simple oneness, either of essence, as the unity of God, or of action, feeling, etc., as unity of design, of affection, etc. Thus, we may speak of effecting a union of interests which shall result in a unity of labor and interest in securing a given object.

One kingdom, joy, and union without end. --Milton.

[Man] is to . . . beget Like of his like, his image multiplied. In unity defective; which requires Collateral love, and dearest amity. --Milton.
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Spanish: unión,
German: die Vereinigung,
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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.)

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union 
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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Main Entry: union
Function: noun
1 : an act or instance of uniting or joining two or more things into one; especially : the formation of a single political unit from two or more separate and individual units
2 : something that is made one : something formed by a combining or coalition of its members: as a : a confederation of independent individuals (as nations or persons) for some common purpose b : a political unit constituting an organic whole formed usually from previously independent units (as England and Scotland in 1707) which have surrendered their principal powers to the government of the whole or to a newly created government (as the U.S. in 1789) c : LABOR UNION
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Main Entry: union
Pronunciation: 'yü-ny&n
Function: noun
: an act or instance of uniting or joining two or more things into one: as a : the growing together of severed parts <union of a fractured bone> b : a chemical combination : BOND c : the joining of two germ cells in the process of fertilization
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union un·ion (y&oomacr;n'yən)
n.

  1. The joining or amalgamation of two or more bodies.
  2. The structural adhesion of the edges of a wound.

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union   (yn'yən)  Pronunciation Key 
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
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.
(2002-02-26)

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