Association vs. Union
Associationnoun
The act of associating.
Associationnoun
The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
Associationnoun
(statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
Associationnoun
A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
Associationnoun
(object-oriented programming) Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
Associationnoun
The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.
Associationnoun
Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing.
Associationnoun
Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches.
Associationnoun
a formal organization of people or groups of people;
Associationnoun
the act of consorting with or joining with others;
Associationnoun
the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination;
Associationnoun
a social or business relationship;
Associationnoun
the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination;
Associationnoun
a relation resulting from interaction or dependence;
Associationnoun
(chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
Associationnoun
(ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species
Unionnoun
(countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
Unionnoun
(uncountable) The state of being united or joined.
Unionnoun
(countable) 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.
Unionnoun
(countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
Unionnoun
(countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
Unionnoun
(countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
Unionnoun
The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
Unionnoun
(countable) The act or state of marriage.
Unionnoun
Sexual intercourse.
Unionnoun
A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
Unionnoun
A large, high-quality pearl.
Unionnoun
(historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
Unionverb
To combine sets using the union operation.
Unionnoun
The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.
Unionnoun
Agreement and conjunction of mind, spirit, will, affections, or the like; harmony; concord.
Unionnoun
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.
Unionnoun
A textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together.
Unionnoun
A large, fine pearl.
Unionnoun
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.
Unionnoun
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.
Unionnoun
A cask suspended on trunnions, in which fermentation is carried on.
Unionnoun
an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer;
Unionnoun
the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War);
Unionnoun
the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes;
Unionnoun
the state of being joined or united or linked;
Unionnoun
the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce);
Unionnoun
healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
Unionnoun
a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations;
Unionnoun
a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets;
Unionnoun
the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts;
Unionnoun
a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
Unionnoun
the act of making or becoming a single unit;
Unionadjective
being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the Civil War;
Unionadjective
of trade unions;
