disjoint union (English, noun)
expansion: disjoint union (plural disjoint unions)
Senses:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A union of sets forced to be disjoint by attaching information referring to the original sets to their elements (i.e., by using indexing).
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A union of sets which are already pairwise disjoint.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The disjoint union of the underlying sets of a given family of topological spaces, equipped with a topology.
Forms:
form: disjoint unions
tags: plural