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Union, industrial township (1990 pop. 50,024), Union co., NE N.J.; settled 1749 by colonists from Connecticut, set off from Elizabethtown 1808. Steel and metal products and paint are among its various manufactures. Union was the site of a Revolutionary battle in 1780. It is the seat of Kean Univ. of New Jersey.

union

The joining of two files in a relational database. See set theory.


union
1. an association, alliance, or confederation of individuals or groups for a common purpose, esp political
2. a device on a flag representing union, such as another flag depicted in the top left corner
3. a device for coupling or linking parts, such as pipes
4. 
a. an association of students at a university or college formed to look after the students' interests, provide facilities for recreation, etc.
b. the building or buildings housing the facilities of such an organization
5. Maths a set containing all members of two given sets. Symbol: ∪, as in A∪B
6. in 19th-century England
a. a number of parishes united for the administration of poor relief
b. a workhouse supported by such a combination
7. Textiles a piece of cloth or fabric consisting of two different kinds of yarn

Union the
1. Brit
a. the union of England and Wales from 1543
b. the union of the English and Scottish crowns (1603--1707)
c. the union of England and Scotland from 1707
d. the political union of Great Britain and Ireland (1801--1920)
e. the union of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1920
2. US
a. the United States of America
b. the northern states of the US during the Civil War
c. (as modifier): Union supporters

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.


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