• A special data type to describe values and variables that may have any of several representations or formats within the same position in memory. A union type definition specifies which of a number of permitted primitive types may be stored in its instances, e.g., float or long integer. In contrast with a record (or structure), which could be defined to contain both a float and an integer, in a union, there is only one value at any given time. ← Wikipedia

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