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Union Street fire
Union Street fire: major Glasgow fire of 8 March 2026 that began in a vape shop and destroyed the B-listed Union Corner Victorian building beside Glasgow Central station, closing Scotland's busiest station; no casualties; cause under investigation.
Union Technical
Union Technical, formally Union Technical Services Ltd, is a Glasgow-based energy-efficiency and retrofit contractor founded in 2014 by Owen Coyle and Michael Sweeney, delivering whole-house upgrades mainly for social housing.
Union territory
Union territory: federal division of India governed directly by the central government under Articles 239-241; eight UTs including Delhi, Puducherry, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh; three have legislatures.
Union Territory of Damān and Diu
Union Territory of Daman and Diu: former Indian union territory (1987-2020) of two districts, Daman and Diu, ex-Portuguese territories liberated in 1961, merged with Dadra and Nagar Haveli on 26 January 2020.
Union Theological Seminary
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, founded 1836, is an independent ecumenical graduate theology school in Manhattan, accredited by ATS and MSCHE, partnered with Columbia, offering eight degrees including prison-based MPS programs.
Union Town (film)
Union Town (2026) is Barbara Kopple's documentary completing her labor trilogy after Harlan County U.S.A. and American Dream, following New York UPS Teamsters, Amazon workers, and migrant deliveristas organizing, including the six-day 2024 Christmas Amazon strike; premiered at Venice 2026.
Union type
A union type is a type whose values may belong to one of several alternative types, covering memory-sharing C-style unions and compiler-tracked type-level unions like TypeScript's.
Union University
Union University is a private Christian university in Jackson, Tennessee, founded 1823 as Jackson Male Academy; renamed from Southwestern Baptist University in 1907; affiliated with the Tennessee Baptist Convention and SACSCOC-accredited. Distinct from Union Theological College Belfast, Union University of California, and Virginia Union University.
Union-closed sets conjecture
The union-closed sets conjecture, also known as Frankl's conjecture, is an open problem stating that every finite union-closed family of sets has an element in at least half its members.
Unionida
Unionida (synonym Unionoida) is the only strictly freshwater order of bivalves, the freshwater mussels or naiads, with about 1,026 species whose glochidia larvae parasitize fish; adults are long-lived filter-feeding ecosystem engineers, and the order is among the world's most threatened animal groups.
Unionism in Ireland
Unionism in Ireland, also called Ulster unionism, is the political tradition supporting Northern Ireland's place in the United Kingdom; it arose against Home Rule, shaped partition in 1921, and now faces demographic decline and post-Brexit constitutional strain.
Unionist politician (American Civil War)
Unionist politician (American Civil War): an officeholder loyal to the Union during 1861-1865, spanning Border South conditional Unionists, Confederate-state dissenters, and figures such as Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's 1864 southern Unionist running mate.
UnionPay (中国银联)
UnionPay, also known as China UnionPay (中国银联), is China's domestic bank card network and clearing switch, founded in 2002 and accepted in more than 180 countries and regions.
UnionTech Software (统信软件)
UnionTech Software (统信软件) is a Chinese developer of Linux desktop and server operating systems, founded in 2019 and best known for its UOS operating system.
Uniparental disomies
Uniparental disomies (UPD) are chromosomal abnormalities in which both copies of a chromosome are inherited from one parent, occurring in about 1 in 2,000 births and causing syndromes such as Prader-Willi and Angelman.
Uniparty
Uniparty is a pejorative term claiming the Democratic and Republican parties function as one entity serving shared interests. Scholars, however, note the parties are increasingly ideologically divided.
Uniper
Uniper SE is a German energy company that trades gas and generates electricity, nationalized by the German government in December 2022 after losing Russian gas supplies.
Unipol Gruppo
Unipol Gruppo, formally Unipol Assicurazioni S.p.A., is an Italian insurance and financial group listed in Milan, ranked second in Italian non-life insurance with 17.6 million customers.
Unipolar neuron
Unipolar neuron (pseudounipolar neuron): a neuron with one process from the soma, typical of PNS sensory neurons in dorsal root and cranial nerve ganglia; develops from bipolar embryonic neurons, with axons up to 1 m or more.
Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery
Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (uniportal VATS) passes a camera and all instruments through one 2.5–5 cm incision, avoiding rib spreading; it was first described in 2004.
Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, or uniportal VATS, is a minimally invasive chest surgery technique in which the camera and all instruments pass through a single small incision.
Unipro
Unipro (ПАО «Юнипро», Unipro PJSC) is a Russian thermal power generation company that operates five power plants with about 11.3 GW of capacity, and is majority-owned by Germany's Uniper SE.
UniProt
UniProt, the Universal Protein Resource, is a public database of protein sequence and functional information centered on the UniProt Knowledgebase, covering proteins from all species.
Uniq (band)
UNIQ (유니크) was a five-member Chinese-Korean boy group under Yuehua Entertainment, debuting October 2014 with Falling In Love; members Yixuan, Sungjoo, Wenhan, Seungyoun, and Yibo later pursued solo careers after a 2018 hiatus.
Uniq Poet
Uniq Poet is the stage name of Utsaha Joshi, a Nepali rapper and poet who rose out of the Kathmandu battle-rap league Raw Barz in the 2010s.
Uniqa
Uniqa is an Austrian insurance group headquartered in Vienna, the second largest in Austria, selling property and casualty, health, and life insurance across Central and Eastern Europe.
Uniqlo (ユニクロ)
Uniqlo (ユニクロ) is a Japanese casual clothing retail chain operated by Fast Retailing, which opened its first store in Hiroshima in 1984 and sells good-quality casual clothing at low prices through in-house planning and production.
Uniqlo GU
GU (ジーユー) is a Japanese low-price fashion brand founded in 2006 by Fast Retailing, the parent company of Uniqlo, selling trendy clothing at prices below Uniqlo's.
UNIQUAC
UNIQUAC (UNIversal QUAsiChemical) is a thermodynamic activity-coefficient model reported by Abrams and Prausnitz in 1975, widely used to predict vapor-liquid and liquid-liquid equilibria in distillation and extraction.
Unique 3
Unique 3 is an English dance group from Bradford, West Yorkshire, formed in 1988, best known for the bleep techno singles "The Theme" and "Musical Melody".