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English noun: conjunction | |||
| 1. | conjunction (attribute) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | ||
| Samples | The interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable. | ||
| Synonyms | co-occurrence, coincidence, concurrence | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | simultaneity, simultaneousness | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | concomitance, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, overlap, unison | ||
| 2. | conjunction (state) the state of being joined together | ||
| Synonyms | colligation, conjugation, junction | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | unification, union | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | anastomosis, inosculation, synapse | ||
| 3. | conjunction (communication) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | ||
| Synonyms | conjunctive, connective, continuative | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | closed-class word, function word | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | coordinating conjunction, subordinate conjunction, subordinating conjunction | ||
| 4. | conjunction the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | grammatical relation | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | adversative conjunction, coordinating conjunction, copulative conjunction, disjunctive conjunction, subordinating conjunction | ||
| 5. | conjunction (event) (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac | ||
| Synonyms | alignment | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | encounter, meeting | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | inferior conjunction, superior conjunction | ||
| Domain category | astronomy, uranology | ||
| 6. | conjunction (artifact) something that joins or connects | ||
| Synonyms | junction | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | connecter, connection, connective, connector, connexion | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | barrier strip, contact, joint, junction barrier, splice, splicing, tangency, thermojunction | ||
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