IN MATH: 1. v. the operation of creating a set which contains all elements of the original sets but no new elements. 2. n. a set cointaining each of the elements of the two sets which were united. EX. The union of set A, {2, 3, 4, 5}, and set B, { 2, 4, 6} is set C, {2, 3, 4, 5, 6}: .

IN ENGLISH: 1. 2. as defined above.

APPLICATION: See list 230.

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