Union vs. Intersection
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;
Intersectionnoun
The junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares.
Intersectionnoun
Any overlap, confluence, or crossover.
Intersectionnoun
(geometry) The point or set of points common to two geometrical objects (such as the point where two lines meet or the line where two planes intersect).
Intersectionnoun
(set theory) The set containing all the elements that are common to two or more sets.
Intersectionnoun
(sports) The element where two or more straight lines of synchronized skaters pass through each other.[http://www.isu.org/vsite/vcontent/content/transnews/0,10869,4844-128590-19728-18885-295370-3787-4771-layout160-129898-news-item,00.html]
Intersectionnoun
(category theory) The pullback of a corner of monics.
Intersectionnoun
The act, state, or place of intersecting.
Intersectionnoun
The point or line in which one line or surface cuts another.
Intersectionnoun
a point where lines intersect
Intersectionnoun
a junction where one street or road crosses another
Intersectionnoun
a point or set of points common to two or more geometric configurations
Intersectionnoun
the set of elements common to two or more sets;
Intersectionnoun
a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena;
Intersectionnoun
the act of intersecting (as joining by causing your path to intersect your target's path)
Intersection
In mathematics, the intersection of two or more objects is another, usually object. Intuitively, the intersection of objects is that which belongs to all of them.
