disjunction
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French disjunction, from Latin disjunctio.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
disjunction (countable and uncountable, plural disjunctions)
- The act of disjoining; disunion, separation.
- The state of being disjoined, contrasting, or opposing.
- the disjunction expressed by disjunctive conjunctions, such as but or or
- 2017 September 7, Ferdinand Mount, “Umbrageousness”, in London Review of Books[1]:
- The disjunction between the despotism the British had been practising in India and the liberal, secular, democratic trends of their domestic politics was too embarrassing to endure indefinitely.
- (logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator.
- (mathematics) A logical operator that results in “true” when any of its operands are true.
- (biology) During meiosis, the separation of chromosomes (homologous in meiosis I, and sister chromatids in meiosis II).
Antonyms[edit]
Hypernyms[edit]
- (in mathematics): logical connective
Hyponyms[edit]
- (in logic): inclusive disjunction
- (in logic): exclusive disjunction
Meronyms[edit]
- (in logic): disjunct
Coordinate terms[edit]
- (in mathematics): conjunction
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- "Disjunction" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- "Disjunction" in Wolfram MathWorld
- “disjunction”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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