Union
Un´ion
| Noun | 1. |  union - an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job" |
| 2. | Union - 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" Synonyms: North | |
| 3. |  union - 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" | |
| 4. | union - the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union" Synonyms: unification Antonyms: separation - the state of lacking unity | |
| 5. |  union - the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union" | |
| 6. | union - healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones Synonyms: conglutination | |
| 7. | union - a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; "the Soviet Union" | |
| 8. | 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" | |
| 9. | union - the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals" | |
| 10. | union - a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner) | |
| 11. | union - 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" Antonyms: disunion - the termination or destruction of union | |
| Adj. | 1. | Union - being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the Civil War; "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman" Synonyms: Federal |
| 2. | union - of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract" Antonyms: nonunion - not belonging to or not allowing affiliation with a trade union; "nonunion carpenters"; "a nonunion contractor" |
UNION. By this word is understood the United States of America; as, all good citizens will support the Union.
| 1. | (set theory) | union - 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. | (programming) | union - 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. | (database) | union - 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. |