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English Dictionary: union	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for union
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Union adj 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" Synonym(s): Union, Federal of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract" Antonym(s): nonunion n an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job" Synonym(s): union, labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood 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" Synonym(s): Union, North 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" Synonym(s): coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union" Synonym(s): union, unification Antonym(s): separation the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union" Synonym(s): marriage, matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlock healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones Synonym(s): union, conglutination a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; "the Soviet Union" 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" Synonym(s): union, sum, join the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals" a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner) 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" Synonym(s): union, unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure Antonym(s): disunion
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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 [bd]singular,[b8] 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
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) 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, 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, 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, ME Zip code(s): 04862 Union, MI Zip code(s): 49130 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, 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, 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, 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, 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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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)