disjunction
English
Etymology
From Old French disjunction, from Latin disjunctio
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪsˈdʒʌŋk(t)ʃən/, /dɪsˈdʒʊŋk(t)ʃən/
- Rhymes: -ʌŋkʃən
Noun
disjunction (countable and uncountable, plural disjunctions)
- The act of disjoining; disunion, separation.
- The state of being disjoined.
- 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.
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- (logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator.
- (mathematics) A logical operator that results in “true” when some of its operands are true.
- (biology) During meiosis, the separation of chromosomes (homologous in meiosis I, and sister chromatids in meiosis II).
Hypernyms
- (in mathematics): logical connective
Hyponyms
- (in logic): inclusive disjunction
- (in logic): exclusive disjunction
Meronyms
- (in logic): disjunct
Coordinate terms
- (in mathematics): conjunction
Derived terms
- disjunctive normal form
Related terms
- disjoin
- disjoint
- disjunct
- disjunctive
Translations
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See also
- conjunction
References
- "Disjunction" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- "Disjunction" in Wolfram MathWorld
- disjunction at OneLook Dictionary Search