conjunction

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

• IPA^(key): /kənˈd͡ʒʌŋk.ʃən/

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• Hyphenation: con‧junc‧tion
• Rhymes: -ʌŋkʃən

conjunction (countable and uncountable, plural conjunctions)

2. 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.

4. (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 , 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.

6. 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.

8. (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.

10. (astrology) An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
12. (logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ (${\displaystyle \land }$) operator.

    Meronyms: conjunct, logical connective

    Coordinate term: disjunction

14. 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.

16. (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulation

    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 29, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book I, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:

      Certaine Nations (and amongst others, the Mahometane) abhorre Conjunction with women great with childe.

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