conjunction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astrology
astronomy
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
logic
mathematics
mysticism
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Old French conjonction, from Latin coniūnctiō (“joining”), from coniungere (“to join”).
Inflected forms:
form: conjunctions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] Dr. Minchin in return was quite sure that man was not a mere machine or a fortuitous conjunction of atoms; […]
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.
gloss: 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.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Cooccurrence; coincidence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] 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.
gloss: The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The spectacular conjunction of Venus and Mars gave rise to a myriad of mythical interpretations.
gloss: An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ ( and ) operator.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: However, sequence 1 dominates sequence 2, because sequence 1 is strictly included in 2. 2 is 1 preceded by a G; that is, 2 is the conjunction of an initial G with 1.
gloss: A place where multiple things meet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Today there is a mountain called Ararat near the conjunction of the Turkish, Armenian, and Iranian borders.
gloss: Sexual intercourse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Certaine Nations (and amongst others, the Mahometane) abhorre Conjunction with women great with childe.
Related words: conjugate
conjunctive → conjunctive normal form
disjunction
Derived words: comparing conjunction
conjunctional
conjunction fallacy
conjunctionless
contrasting conjunction
coordinating conjunction
in conjunction with
misconjunction
subordinating conjunction
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: lidhje
lang: Bulgarian
word: съедине́ние
roman: sǎedinénie
lang: Bulgarian
word: свъ́рзване
roman: svǎ́rzvane
lang: Catalan
word: conjunció
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 結合 /结合
roman: git³ hap⁶
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 連接 /连接
roman: lin⁴ zip³
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 結合 /结合
roman: jiéhé
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 連接 /连接
roman: liánjiē
lang: Finnish
word: liittäminen
lang: Finnish
word: yhdistäminen
lang: Galician
word: conxunción
lang: German
word: Zusammenhang
lang: Greek
word: σύνδεση
roman: sýndesi
lang: Greek
word: σύζευξη
roman: sýzefxi
lang: Hungarian
word: egyesülés
lang: Hungarian
word: egyesítés
lang: Hungarian
word: összevonás
lang: Hungarian
word: összekapcsolás
lang: Hungarian
word: összekapcsolódás
lang: Hungarian
word: kapcsolódás
lang: Hungarian
word: kapcsolat
lang: Interlingua
word: conjunction
lang: Japanese
word: 結合
roman: ketsugō
lang: Japanese
word: 接合
roman: setsugō
lang: Japanese
word: 接続
roman: setsuzoku
lang: Japanese
word: 連接
roman: rensetsu
lang: Korean
word: 결합
roman: gyeolhap
lang: Korean
word: 연접
roman: yeonjeop
lang: Macedonian
word: спој
roman: spoj
lang: Macedonian
word: врска
roman: vrska
lang: Malay
word: penggabungan
lang: Maltese
word: konġunzjoni
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: sammensetning
lang: Polish
word: łączenie
lang: Polish
word: połączenie
lang: Portuguese
word: conjunção
lang: Romanian
word: unire
lang: Romanian
word: legare
lang: Romanian
word: conjuncție
lang: Russian
word: сою́з
roman: sojúz
lang: Russian
word: связь
roman: svjazʹ
lang: Spanish
word: conjunción
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: ربط
roman: rabt, rabıt