| international flight | a flight that takes off in one country and lands in another |
union
unification
uniting
conjugation jointure | the act of making or becoming a single unit, the union of opposing factions, he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays |
| second nature | acquired behavior that is practiced so long it seems innate |
| international terrorism | terrorism practiced in a foreign country by terrorists who are not native to that country |
| conservation | the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources |
| soil conservation | protection of soil against erosion or deterioration |
| oil conservation | the conservation of petroleum resources |
| water conservation | the conservation of water resources |
coupling
mating
pairing
conjugation
union sexual union | the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes, the casual couplings of adolescents, the mating of some species occurs only in the spring |
| jihad jehad international jihad | a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels |
world affairs
international affairs | affairs between nations, you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television |
mutual aid
international logistic support | arrangements made between nations to assist each other |
Cooper Union
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art | university founded in by Peter Cooper to offer free courses in the arts and sciences |
long underwear
union suit | an undergarment with shirt and drawers in one piece |
| student union | a building on a college campus dedicated to social and organizational activities of the student body |
| union | a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner) |
Union Jack
Union flag | national flag of the United Kingdom |
| human nature | the shared psychological attributes of humankind that are assumed to be shared by all human beings, a great observer of human nature |
| nature | the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions, it is his nature to help others |
animality
animal nature | the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect |
| good nature | a cheerful, obliging disposition |
| ill nature | a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition |
| nature | the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized, it is the nature of fire to burn, the true nature of jealousy |
concert pitch
philharmonic pitch
international pitch | the pitch used to tune instruments for concert performances, usually assignsHz to the A above middle C |
| nature study | the study of animals and plants in the natural world (usually at an elementary level) |
| nature | a particular type of thing, problems of this type are very difficult to solve, he's interested in trains and things of that nature, matters of a personal nature |
| law law of nature | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature, the laws of thermodynamics |
| nature worship | a system of religion that deifies and worships natural forces and phenomena |
| conservation | (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations |
conservation of charge
conservation of electricity | the principle that the total electric charge of a system remains constant despite changes inside the system |
conservation of energy
law of conservation of energy
first law of thermodynamics | the fundamental principle of physics that the total energy of an isolated system is constant despite internal changes |
conservation of mass
conservation of matter
law of conservation of mass
law of conservation of matter | a fundamental principle of classical physics that matter cannot be created or destroyed in an isolated system |
| conservation of momentum | the principle that the total linear momentum in a closed system is constant and is not affected by processes occurring inside the system |
parity
conservation of parity
spaceeflection symmetry
mirror symmetry | (physics) parity is conserved in a universe in which the laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of coordinates as in a left-handed system |
Morse
Morse code
international Morse code | a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals) |
| union card | a card certifying membership in a labor union |
International Wanted Notice
Red Notice | an Interpol notice describing a wanted person and asking that he or she be arrested with a view to extradition, a wanted notice that is issued by Interpol at the request of an Interpol member country and distributed to all member countries, an Interpol Red Notice is the closest instrument to an international arrest warrant in use today |
| union | the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts, lightning produced an unusual union of the metals |
conservation
preservation | an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change |
| union sum join | a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets, let C be the union of the sets A and B |
| International Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders | a terrorist group organized by Osama bin Laden in that provided an umbrella organization for al-Qaeda and other militant groups in Egypt and Algeria and Pakistan and Bangladesh |
Japanese Red Army
JRA
Anti-Imperialist International Brigade | a terrorist group organized into overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution, is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists, in the Japanese Red Army was responsible for a massacre at an airport in Israel |
Hare Krishna
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
ISKCON | a religious sect founded in the United States in , based on Vedic scriptures, groups engage in joyful chanting of `Hare Krishna' and other mantras based on the name of the Hindu god Krishna, devotees usually wear saffron robes and practice vegetarianism and celibacy |
European Union
EU
European Community
EC
European Economic Community
EEC
Common Market
Europe | an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members, he tried to take Britain into the Europen Union |
| Pan American Union | the administrative agency of the Organization of American States |
union labor union
trade union
trades union
brotherhood | an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer, you have to join the union in order to get a job |
industrial union
vertical union | a labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft |
| Teamsters Union | an industrial union of truck drivers and chauffeurs and warehouse workers |
| craft union | a labor union whose membership is restricted to workers in a particular craft |
| credit union | a cooperative depository financial institution whose members can obtain loans from their combined savings |