Counion

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The join or union of all sets that meet a specified condition.

    "the left adjoint […] preserves direct factors, their cointersections, their complements and thus their counions"

  2. 2
    Others in a trade union. attributive

    "After weeks of fruitless negotiations, Bollinger and his counion members went out on strike, demanding a pay boost."

  3. 3
    Communion.

    "Counion with Him is His desire, not a robotic family who is programmed or shows up out of duty or obligation."

  4. 4
    The act or result of joining or merging; union.

    "Yet this crucial break did not become an environmental threat until the counion of science and technology in the nineteenth century."

Example

More examples

"the left adjoint […] preserves direct factors, their cointersections, their complements and thus their counions"

Etymology

From co- + union.

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