conjunction
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French conjonction, from Latin coniūnctiō (“joining”), from coniungere (“to join”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
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conjunction (countable and uncountable, plural conjunctions)
- The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
- Synonyms: connection, union
- 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XVIII, in Middlemarch […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I:
- […] Dr. Minchin in return was quite sure that man was not a mere machine or a fortuitous conjunction of atoms; […]
- 1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books[1]:
- About them all there is that sort of stiff quaint unreality, that conjunction of the grotesque, and even of a certain bourgeois snugness, with passionate contortion and horror, that is so characteristic of Gothic art.
- (grammar) A word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences. The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related.
- 1881, Alfred Ayres [pseudonym; Thomas Embly Osmun], The Verbalist[2]:
- A comma is placed between short members of compound sentences, connected by and, but, for, nor, or, because, whereas, that expressing purpose (so that, in order that), and other conjunctions.
- Cooccurrence; coincidence.
- 1843, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic[3], volume 1:
- […] the coexistence of one such phenomenon with another; or the succession of one such phenomenon to another: their conjunction, in short, so that where the one is found, we may calculate on finding both.
- (astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.
- Antonym: opposition
- Hyponyms: grand conjunction, great conjunction, inferior conjunction, superior conjunction, topocentric conjunction
- (astrology) An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
- (logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ () operator.
- Meronyms: conjunct, logical connective
- Coordinate term: disjunction
- A place where multiple things meet
- 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 47:
- Today there is a mountain called Ararat near the conjunction of the Turkish, Armenian, and Iranian borders.
- (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulation
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 29, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- Certaine Nations (and amongst others, the Mahometane) abhorre Conjunction with women great with childe.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]act of joining or being joined
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grammar: word used to join words or phrases
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astronomy: alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth
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logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the and operator
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