disjunction
Collocations
3ADJ.
disjunctive
DISJUNCTION + NOUN
despotism
PREP.
between
Definitions
noun
The act of disjoining; disunion, separation.
The state of being disjoined, contrasting, or opposing.
the disjunction expressed by disjunctive conjunctions, such as but or or
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.
The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator.
A logical operator that results in “true” when any of its operands are true.
During meiosis, the separation of chromosomes (homologous in meiosis I, and sister chromatids in meiosis II).
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — the act of breaking a connection
noun — state of being disconnected
- disjuncture
- disconnection
- disconnectedness
Antonyms
- connection
- link
- connectedness
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
2the disjunction expressed by disjunctive conjunctions, such as but or or
WiktionaryThe 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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