disjunction
About 0.87 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The act of disjoining; disunion, separation.
- noun The state of being disjoined, contrasting, or opposing.
the disjunction expressed by disjunctive conjunctions, such as but or or
- noun The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator.
- noun A logical operator that results in “true” when any of its operands are true.
- noun During meiosis, the separation of chromosomes (homologous in meiosis I, and sister chromatids in meiosis II).
Similar words
disconnection disconnectedness disjuncture separation severance disjunct lag discontinuity divide discrepancy
Often followed by
between of is in and that or from with
Word family
disjunctions
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