Dictionary Definition
conjunction
Noun
1 the temporal property of two things happening
at the same time; "the interval determining the coincidence gate is
adjustable" [syn: concurrence, coincidence, co-occurrence]
3 an uninflected function word that serves to
conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences [syn: conjunctive, connective]
4 the grammatical relation between linguistic
units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a
conjunction
5 (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two
or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac [syn:
alignment]
6 something that joins or connects [syn: junction]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌŋkʃən
Noun
- The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
- 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.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays,
vol. 1 ch. 29:
- A word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences. The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related.
- The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.
- An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
- In the context of "logic": The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ (\and) operator.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
act of joining or being joined
- Chinese:
- Finnish: liittäminen, yhdistäminen
- Greek: σύνδεση
- Japanese: 結合, 接合, 接続, 連接
- Polish: łączenie, połączenie
- Portuguese: conjunção
- Russian: союз, связь
grammar: word used to join words or phrases
- Bosnian: veznik
- Catalan: conjunció
- Chinese:
- Croatian: veznik
- Czech: spojka
- Danish: bindeord
- Dutch: voegwoord
- Estonian: sidesõna
- Finnish: konjunktio, sidesana
- French: conjonction
- German: Konjunktion, Bindewort
- GreeK: σύνδεσμος
- Indonesian: kata penghubung
- Italian: congiunzione
- Japanese: 接続詞
- Latin: coniunctio
- Maltese: konġugazzjoni
- Norwegian: konjunksjon
- Novial: konjunktione
- Polish: spójnik
- Portuguese: conjunção
- Romanian: conjuncţie
- Russian: союз
- Serbian:
- Spanish: conjunción
- Swedish: konjunktion
- Telugu: సంయోజకము (samyojakamu)
astronomy: alignment of two bodies in the solar
system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth
- Chinese:
- Czech: konjunkce
- Finnish: konjunktio
- German: Konjunktion
- Japanese: 会合, 合
- Polish: koniunkcja
- Portuguese: conjunção
- Russian: конъюнкция (konjúnkcija)
- Swedish: konjunktion
logic: proposition resulting from the
combination of two or more propositions using the and operator
- Czech: konjunkce
- Esperanto: konjunkcio
- French: conjonction
- German: Konjunktion
- Japanese: 連接
- Portuguese: conjunção
- Russian: конъюнкция
- Swedish: konjunktion
- ttbc Estonian: konjunktsioon
- Greek, Ancient: σύνδεσμος (sýndesmos)
- ttbc Indonesian: kata sambung, kata penghubung
- ttbc Interlingua: conjunction
- ttbc Latin: coniunctio
- ttbc Lithuanian: jungtukas
- ttbc Romanian: conjuncţie
See also
Extensive Definition
Conjunction can refer to:
- Astronomical conjunction, an astronomical phenomenon
- Astrological aspect, an aspect in horoscopic astrology
- Grammatical conjunction, a part of speech
- Logical conjunction, a mathematical operator
- Conjunctions, an American literary journal
conjunction in Catalan: Conjunció
conjunction in Czech: Konjunkce
conjunction in Danish: Konjunktion
conjunction in German: Konjunktion
(Begriffsklärung)
conjunction in Spanish: Conjunción
conjunction in French: Conjonction
conjunction in Galician: Conxunción
conjunction in Dutch: Conjunctie
conjunction in Japanese: コンジャンクション
conjunction in Norwegian: Konjunksjon (andre
betydninger)
conjunction in Polish: Koniunkcja
conjunction in Slovak: Konjunkcia
conjunction in Slovenian: Konjunkcija
conjunction in Finnish: Konjunktio
conjunction in Swedish: Konjunktion
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Anschluss, abutment, abuttal, accompaniment, accordance, addition, adjacency, adjectival, adjective, adjoiningness, adverb, adverbial, adversative
conjunction, affiliation, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, agreement, alliance, amalgamation, apposition, appulse, articulation, assimilation, association, attributive, blend, blending, bond, bracketing, cabal, cahoots, cartel, centralization, clustering, co-working,
coaction, coalescence, coalition, coincidence, collaboration, collectivity, collusion, combination, combine, combined effort,
combo, communication, composition, concatenation, concert, concerted action,
concomitance,
concordance,
concourse, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, confluence, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunctive
adverb, connection,
consilience,
consolidation,
conspiracy, conterminousness,
contiguity, convergence, cooperation, coordinating
conjunction, copulation, copulative, copulative
conjunction, correlative conjunction, correspondence, coterminousness,
coupling, disjunctive, disjunctive
conjunction, ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, exclamatory noun,
federalization,
federation, form
class, form word, function class, fusion, gathering, gerundive, hookup, inclusion, incorporation, integration, intercommunication,
intercourse,
interjection,
interlinking,
joinder, joining, jointure, junction, junta, juxtaposition, knotting, league, liaison, linkage, linking, marriage, meeting, meld, melding, merger, merging, package, package deal, pairing, parasitism, part of speech,
participle, particle, partnership, past
participle, perfect participle, perigee, perihelion, preposition, present
participle, saprophytism, simultaneity, solidification, splice, subordinating
conjunction, symbiosis, synchronism, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synergy, synthesis, syzygy, tie, tie-in, tie-up, unification, union, united action, verbal
adjective, wedding,
yoking