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conjunction

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English

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchconjonction, fromLatinconiūnctiō(joining), fromconiungere(to join).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Examples (grammar)
  • Bread, butterand cheese.

conjunction (countable anduncountable,pluralconjunctions)

  1. Theact ofjoining, orcondition of being joined.
    Synonyms:connection,union
    • 1871–1872,George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XVIII, inMiddlemarch [], volume(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 fortuitousconjunction of atoms;[]
    • 1896,Robert Louis Stevenson,Familiar Studies of Men and Books[1]:
      About them all there is that sort of stiff quaint unreality, thatconjunction of the grotesque, and even of a certain bourgeois snugness, with passionate contortion and horror, that is so characteristic of Gothic art.
  2. (grammar) Aword used to join other words,phrases, orclauses together into sentences.(The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are relatedsemantically.)
    Hyponyms:coordinating conjunction,subordinating conjunction
    • 1881, Alfred Ayres[pseudonym; Thomas Embly Osmun],The Verbalist[2]:
      A comma is placed between short members of compound sentences, connected byand,but,for,nor,or,because,whereas,that expressing purpose (so that, in order that), and otherconjunctions.
  3. 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: theirconjunction, in short, so that where the one is found, we may calculate on finding both.
  4. (astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in thesolar system such that they have the samelongitude when seen from Earth.
    Antonym:opposition
    Hyponyms:grand conjunction,great conjunction,inferior conjunction,superior conjunction,topocentric conjunction
    • 2011,Starf*cker [] , Ev Cochrane,→ISBN,page140:
      The spectacularconjunction of Venus and Mars gave rise to a myriad of mythical interpretations.
  5. (astrology) Anaspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
  6. (logic) Theproposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ({\displaystyle \land })operator.
    Meronyms:conjunct,logical connective
    Coordinate term:disjunction
  7. A place where multiple things meet.
    Coordinate terms:junction,juncture,confluence
    • 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow,Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page47:
      Today there is a mountain called Ararat near theconjunction of the Turkish, Armenian, and Iranian borders.
  8. (obsolete)Sexual intercourse.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:copulation

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Translations

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act of joining or being joined
grammar: word used to join words or phrases
cooccurrence; coincidencesee alsocooccurrence,‎coincidence
astronomy: alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth
logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the and operator
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