disjunction
nounEtymology
From Old French disjunction, from Latin disiunctiō.
- derived from disiunctiō
Definitions
The act of disjoining
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
- 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.
The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or…
The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator.
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A logical operator that results in “true” when any of its operands are true.
During meiosis, the separation of chromosomes (homologous in meiosis I, and sister…
During meiosis, the separation of chromosomes (homologous in meiosis I, and sister chromatids in meiosis II).
The neighborhood
- synonymdisjuncture
- antonymjunction
- neighborjunction
- neighborconjunction
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at disjunction. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at disjunction. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at disjunction
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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