In mathematics, the disjoint union (or discriminated union)
of the sets A and B is the set formed from the elements of A and B labelled (indexed) with the name of the set from which they come. So, an element belonging to both A and B appears twice in the disjoint union, with two different labels.
A disjoint union of an indexed family of sets
is a set
often denoted by
with an injection of each
into
such that the images of these injections form a partition of
(that is, each element of
belongs to exactly one of these images). A disjoint union of a family of pairwise disjoint sets is their union.
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