conjunction

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Etymology

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

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋkʃən

Noun

conjunction (plural conjunctions)

1. The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
2. (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, vol. 1 ch. 29:

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

3. (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. Example: Bread, butter and cheese.
4. (astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.
5. (astrology) An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
6. (logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ ($\and$) operator.

Coordinate terms

• (logic): disjunction

Hypernyms

• (logic): logical connective

Derived terms

• inferior conjunction
• superior conjunction
• conjunctive normal form

Related terms

• conjugate

Translations

act of joining or being joined

Bulgarian: съединение (bg) n., свързване (bg) Catalan: conjunció (ca) f. Chinese: Cantonese: 結合 (git3 hap6), 連接 (lin4 zip3) Mandarin: 结合, 結合 (jié hé), 连接,連接 (lián jiē) Finnish: liittäminen, yhdistäminen Greek: σύνδεση (el) f. Interlingua: conjunction (ia)

Japanese: 結合 (ja) (ketsugō), 接合 (ja) (setsugō), 接続 (ja) (setsuzoku), 連接 (ja) (rensetsu) Macedonian: спој (mk) (spoj) m., врска (mk) (v'rska) f. Norwegian: Bokmål: sammensetning (nb) m. Polish: łączenie (pl) n., połączenie (pl) n. Portuguese: conjunção (pt) f. Russian: союз (ru) (sojúz) m., связь (ru) (svjaz’) f. Spanish: conjunción (es) f., unión (es) f.

grammar: word used to join words or phrases

Arabic: حرف عطف (ar) (Harf `aTf) m. Armenian: շաղկապ (hy) (šaġkap) Bosnian: veznik (bs) m. Breton: stagell (br) f. Bulgarian: съюз (bg) m. Catalan: conjunció (ca) f. Chechen: хуттург Chinese: Cantonese: 連接詞 (lin4 zip3 ci4), 連詞 (lin4 ci4) Mandarin: 連接詞 (cmn), 连接词 (cmn) (liánjiēcí), 連詞 (cmn), 连词 (cmn) (liáncí) Croatian: veznik (hr) m. Czech: spojka (cs) f. Danish: bindeord (da) Dutch: voegwoord (nl) n. Estonian: sidesõna (et) Faroese: sambindingarorð (fo) n. Finnish: konjunktio (fi), sidesana (fi) French: conjonction (fr) f. German: Konjunktion (de) f., Bindewort (de) n. Greek: σύνδεσμος (el) m. Icelandic: samtenging (is) f. Indonesian: kata penghubung (id)

Interlingua: conjunction (ia) Italian: congiunzione (it) f. Japanese: 接続詞 (ja) (setsuzokushi) Khmer: ឈ្នាប់ (km) (chnuab) Latin: coniunctio (la) f. Latvian: saiklis (lv) m. Lithuanian: jungtukas (lt) m. Macedonian: сврзник (mk) (sv'rznik) m. Maltese: konġugazzjoni Norwegian: konjunksjon (no) m., bindeord (no) n. Novial: konjunktione Persian: حرف ربط (fa) (harfe rabt) Polish: spójnik (pl) m. Portuguese: conjunção (pt) f. Romanian: conjuncție (ro) f. Russian: союз (ru) (sojúz) m. Scottish Gaelic: naisgear (gd) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: везник m. Roman: veznik m. Spanish: conjunción (es) f. Swedish: konjunktion (sv) c. Telugu: సంయోజకము (samyojakamu) Turkish: bağlaç (tr)

astronomy: alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth

Catalan: conjunció (ca) f. Chinese: Cantonese: 會合 (wui6 hap6) Mandarin: 会合, 會合 (huì hé) Czech: konjunkce (cs) Finnish: konjunktio (fi) German: Konjunktion (de) f. Greek: σύνοδος (el) f.

Interlingua: conjunction (ia) Japanese: 会合 (ja) (kaigō), 合 (ja) (gō) Polish: koniunkcja (pl) f. Portuguese: conjunção (pt) f. Russian: конъюнкция (ru) (konjúnkcija) f. Spanish: conjunción (es) f. Swedish: konjunktion (sv) c.

logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the and operator

Bulgarian: съединение (bg) n. Czech: konjunkce (cs) f. Esperanto: konjunkcio (eo) French: conjonction (fr) f. German: Konjunktion (de) f. Greek: σύζευξη (el) f. Icelandic: ogun (is) f. Interlingua: conjunction (ia)

Japanese: 連接 (ja) (rensetsu) Macedonian: конјункција (mk) (konjúnkcija) f. Norwegian: Bokmål: konjunksjon (nb) m. Portuguese: conjunção (pt) f. Russian: конъюнкция (ru) (konjúnkcija) f. Swedish: konjunktion (sv) c.

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Estonian: konjunktsioon Ancient Greek: σύνδεσμος (sýndesmos) m. Indonesian: kata sambung, kata penghubung Interlingua: conjunction Latin: coniunctio f. Lithuanian: jungtukas m. Romanian: conjuncție f.

See also

• disjunction