conjunction
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(noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences |
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Synonyms: conjunctive, connective |
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Related Words: closed-class word, coordinating conjunction, function word, subordinate conjunction, subordinating conjunction |
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(noun) (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac |
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Synonyms: alignment |
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Related Words: encounter, inferior conjunction, meeting, superior conjunction |
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(noun) the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction |
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Related Words: adversative conjunction, coordinating conjunction, copulative conjunction, disjunctive conjunction, grammatical relation, subordinating conjunction |
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(noun) something that joins or connects |
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Synonyms: junction |
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Related Words: barrier strip, connecter, connection, connective, connector, connexion, contact, joint, junction barrier, splice, splicing, tangency, thermojunction |
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(noun) the state of being joined |
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Synonyms: junction |
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Related Words: anastomosis, inosculation, synapse, union |
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(noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time; "the interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable" |
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Synonyms: co-occurrence, coincidence, concurrence |
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Related Words: concomitance, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, overlap, simultaneity, simultaneousness, unison |
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