Definition of union

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Union (n.) 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..

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Unionist :: Unionist (n.) A member or supporter of a trades union.
Linkage :: Linkage (n.) Manner of linking or of being linked; -- said of the union of atoms or radicals in the molecule.
Duumvirate :: Duumvirate (n.) The union of two men in the same office; or the office, dignity, or government of two men thus associated, as in ancient Rome..
Trinity :: Trinity (n.) Any union of three in one; three units treated as one; a triad, as the Hindu trinity, or Trimurti..
Engender :: Engender (v. t.) To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget.
Syncretist :: Syncretism (n.) Attempted union of principles or parties irreconcilably at variance with each other.
Annexation :: Annexation (v. t.) The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold..
Reservation :: Reservation (n.) The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.
Weld :: Weld (v. t.) To press or beat into intimate and permanent union, as two pieces of iron when heated almost to fusion..
Entwinement :: Entwinement (n.) A twining or twisting together or round; union.
Unionism :: Unionism (n.) The principles, or the system, of combination among workmen engaged in the same occupation or trade..
Antecommunion :: Antecommunion (n.) A name given to that part of the Anglican liturgy for the communion, which precedes the consecration of the elements..
Cement :: Cement (n.) Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society..
Contact :: Contact (n.) A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
Conglutination :: Conglutination (n.) A gluing together; a joining by means of some tenacious substance; junction; union.
Zygosperm :: Zygosperm (n.) A spore formed by the union of the contents of two similar cells, either of the same or of distinct individual plants. Zygosperms are found in certain orders of algae and fungi..
Introit :: Introit (n.) An anthem or psalm sung before the Communion service.
Zygospore :: Zygospore (n.) A spore formed by the union of several zoospores; -- called also zygozoospore.
Zyophyte :: Zyophyte (n.) Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (Zygophytes, Zygophyta, or Zygosporeae), in which reproduction consists in the union of two similar cells. Cf. Oophyte..
Schismatize :: Schismatize (v. i.) To take part in schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.
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