conjunctionnoun/kənˈd͡ʒʌŋk.ʃn̩/

• 1

  The act of joining, or condition of being joined.

  • […] Dr. Minchin in return was quite sure that man was not a mere machine or a fortuitous conjunction of atoms; […]
  • About them all there is that sort of stiff quaint unreality, that conjunction of the grotesque, and even of a certain bourgeois snugness, with passionate contortion and horror, that is so characteristic of Gothic art.
• 2

  grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA word used to join other words, phrases, or clauses together into sentences. (The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related semantically.)

  • A comma is placed between short members of compound sentences, connected by and, but, for, nor, or, because, whereas, that expressing purpose (so that, in order that), and other conjunctions.
• 3

  Cooccurrence; coincidence.

  • […] the coexistence of one such phenomenon with another; or the succession of one such phenomenon to another: their conjunction, in short, so that where the one is found, we may calculate on finding both.
• 4

  astronomynatural-sciencesThe alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.

  • The spectacular conjunction of Venus and Mars gave rise to a myriad of mythical interpretations.
• 5

  astrologyhuman-sciencesmysticismAn aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.

• 6

  human-scienceslogicmathematicsThe proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ ( and ) operator.

  • However, sequence 1 dominates sequence 2, because sequence 1 is strictly included in 2. 2 is 1 preceded by a G; that is, 2 is the conjunction of an initial G with 1.
• 7

  A place where multiple things meet.

  • Today there is a mountain called Ararat near the conjunction of the Turkish, Armenian, and Iranian borders.
• 8

  obsoleteSexual intercourse.

  • Certaine Nations (and amongst others, the Mahometane) abhorre Conjunction with women great with childe.