disjunction
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Etymology
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#DISJUNCTIONCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *yewg-#DISJUNCTIONFrom Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#DISJUNCTION disjunctionCategory:English undefined derivations#DISJUNCTION, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#DISJUNCTION disiunctiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
disjunction (countable and uncountable, plural disjunctions)Category:English lemmas#DISJUNCTIONCategory:English nouns#DISJUNCTIONCategory:English uncountable nouns#DISJUNCTIONCategory:English countable nouns#DISJUNCTIONCategory:English countable nouns#DISJUNCTIONCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DISJUNCTIONCategory:Pages with entries#DISJUNCTIONCategory:Pages with 1 entry#DISJUNCTION
- The act of disjoining; disunion, separation.
- The state of being disjoined, contrasting, or opposing.
- the disjunction expressed by disjunctive conjunctions, such as but or orCategory:English terms with usage examples#DISJUNCTION
- 2017 September 7, Ferdinand Mount, “Umbrageousness”, in London Review of Books:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#DISJUNCTION
- (logicCategory:en:Logic#DISJUNCTION) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator.
- (mathematicsCategory:en:Mathematics#DISJUNCTION) A logical operator that results in “true” when any of its operands are true.
- (biologyCategory:en:Biology#DISJUNCTION) During meiosis, the separation of chromosomes (homologous in meiosis I, and sister chromatids in meiosis II).
Synonyms
Antonyms
Hypernyms
- (in mathematics): logical connective
Hyponyms
- (in logic): inclusive disjunction
- (in logic): exclusive disjunction
Meronyms
- (in logic): disjunct
Coordinate terms
- (in mathematics): conjunction
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Translations
logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
See also
References
- "Disjunction" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- "Disjunction" in Wolfram MathWorld
- “disjunction”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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