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conjunction

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conjunction in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac
    conjunction  alignment 
  2. the temporal property of two things happening at the same time
    "the interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable"
    concurrence  coincidence  conjunction  co-occurrence 
  3. the state of being joined together
    junction  conjunction  conjugation  colligation 
  4. something that joins or connects
    junction  conjunction 
  5. an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
    conjunction  conjunctive  connective  continuative 
  6. the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction
    conjunction 
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