conjunction

Noun

Meaning

The act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league.

The meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as, the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter and Saturn. See the Note under Aspect, n., 6.

A connective or connecting word; an indeclinable word which serves to join together sentences, clauses of a sentence, or words; as, and, but, if.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

connective union association alliance agreement connection link bond joining partnership junction alignment affiliation conjugation coincidence
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Antonyms

space cell division analysis dissociation separatism
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Hypernyms

union connexion connector meeting connection encounter

Hyponyms

contact joint overlap splice contemporaneity unison

Related terms

conjugate conjunctive conjunctive normal form

Phrases with the word

in conjunction with in conjunction act in conjunction outer conjunction subordinate conjunction correlative conjunction

Examples

I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. Jorge Luis Borges

Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets. William Faulkner

Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth. Johannes Kepler

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia. William Kirby

Therefore the love which us doth bind, But Fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars. Andrew Marvell

He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted. Nicolas Malebranche

Close letter words and terms

conjugium conjuncatenation conjunct conjunction fallacy conjunctional conjunctional clause