# conjunction
## English
### Etymology

From Old French conjonction, from Latin coniūnctiō (“joining”), from coniungere (“to join”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kənˈd͡ʒʌŋk.ʃən/
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* Hyphenation: con‧junc‧tion
* Rhymes: -ʌŋkʃən

### Noun

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 […], 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 fortuitous conjunction of atoms; […]
** 1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books‎: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, phrases, or clauses together into sentences. (The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related semantically.)
    Hyponyms: coordinating conjunction, subordinating conjunction
** 1881, Alfred Ayres [pseudonym; Thomas Embly Osmun], The Verbalist‎: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, 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
** 2011, Starf*cker […] , Ev Cochrane, →ISBN, page 140:The spectacular conjunction of Venus and Mars gave rise to a myriad of mythical interpretations.
* (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 ∧ ($\land$) operator.
    Meronyms: conjunct, logical connective
    Coordinate term: disjunction
* A place where multiple things meet.
    Coordinate terms: junction, juncture, confluence
** 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.

#### Derived terms

* conjunctional
* conjunction fallacy
* conjunctionless
* coordinating conjunction
* in conjunction with
* misconjunction
* subordinating conjunction

#### Related terms

* conjugate
* conjunctive → conjunctive normal form

#### Translations

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### See also

* disjunction

### Further reading

* conjunction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia