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counion en · NOUN

Etymology

From co- + union.

Meanings

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 1986, Yves Diers, Categories of Boolean sheaves of simple algebras:
2. (attributive) Others in a trade union.
   • After weeks of fruitless negotiations, Bollinger and his counion members went out on strike, demanding a pay boost. 1977, McKee Fisk, Norbert J. Mietus, Applied Business Law:
3. Communion.
   • Counion with Him is His desire, not a robotic family who is programmed or shows up out of duty or obligation. 2015, Rhonda Ambrose, Beyond the Door, →ISBN:
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. 2001, Hans-Dirk van Hoogstraten, Deep Economy: Caring for Ecology, Humanity and Religion, →ISBN, page 62:

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