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The act of disjoining; disunion, separation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
The state of being disjoined, contrasting, or opposing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- the disjunction expressed by disjunctive conjunctions, such as but or or
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences
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Meaning relationships
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A logical operator that results in “true” when any of its operands are true.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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During meiosis, the separation of chromosomes (homologous in meiosis I, and sister chromatids in meiosis II).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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the act of breaking a connection
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disconnection
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: separation
state of being disconnected
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disjuncture, disconnection, disconnectedness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: separation
Narrower terms: separability, incoherence, incoherency
From Old French disjunction, from Latin disiunctiō.
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
disjunció
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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Chinese Mandarin:
析取
(xīqǔ)
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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Czech:
disjunkce
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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Danish:
disjunktion
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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Finnish:
disjunktio
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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French:
disjonction
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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German:
Disjunktion
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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Greek:
διάζευξη
(diázefxi)
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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Hungarian:
diszjunkció
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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Hungarian:
VAGY-művelet
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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Icelandic:
eðun
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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Japanese:
選言命題
(sengen meidai)
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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Kazakh:
дизъюнкция
(dizünksiä)
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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Norwegian Bokmål:
disjunksjon
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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Occitan:
disjoncion
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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Occitan:
disjonccion
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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Polish:
alternatywa
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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Portuguese:
disjunção
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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Romanian:
disjuncție
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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Russian:
дизъю́нкция
(dizʺjúnkcija)
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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Serbo-Croatian:
дисјункција
(disjunkcija)
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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Serbo-Croatian:
disjunkcija
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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Slovene:
disjunkcija
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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Spanish:
disyunción
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator
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Ukrainian:
диз'ю́нкція
(dyzʺjúnkcija)
— logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator