# conjunction

Pronunciation: say "kuhn-JUNGK-shuhn" /kənˈd͡ʒʌŋk.ʃn̩/

## Noun

1. The act of joining things together, or the condition of being joined.
   - Simple: Joining things together, or the state of being joined together.
   - _The menu is a bold conjunction of Mexican spices with Korean barbecue._
   - _The conjunction of the two small towns into one city took nearly ten years._
2. A word that joins words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence, the choice of word showing how the joined parts relate in meaning.
   - Simple: A word like and, but, or because that joins words or parts of a sentence.
   - _The editor cut the conjunction and split the long sentence in two._
   - _Words such as "although" and "unless" are conjunctions that introduce a dependent clause._
3. The occurrence of two or more things together, or their happening at the same time.
   - Simple: When two or more things happen at the same time or are found together.
   - _Researchers studied the conjunction of poverty and poor health in rural counties._
   - _The market crash followed an unusual conjunction of rising rates and falling profits._
4. A place where two or more things meet.
   - Simple: A place where two or more things come together.
   - _The town grew up at the conjunction of three old trade routes._
   - _A stone marker stands at the conjunction of the three state lines._
5. An alignment of two bodies in the solar system in which they have the same longitude as seen from Earth.
   - Simple: When two objects in our solar system, like planets, look lined up in the sky from Earth.
   - _Jupiter and Saturn will be in conjunction low in the western sky this week._
   - _Astronomers calculated the dates of every planetary conjunction for the next century._
6. An aspect in which two or more planets are close to one another.
   - Simple: In astrology, a time when planets are very close to each other.
   - _The astrologer pointed to a conjunction of Saturn and the moon in her birth chart._
   - _Some astrologers read a Jupiter–Saturn conjunction as the start of a new era._
7. A compound proposition formed by joining two or more propositions with the logical operator ∧ (and).
   - Simple: In logic, a statement made by joining two or more statements with "and."
   - _In the truth table, the conjunction P ∧ Q comes out true in only one row._
   - _The program checks a conjunction of conditions: the user is logged in and has permission._

## Noun

8. Sexual intercourse. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Sex between two people.
   - _The physician advised the couple to avoid conjunction until she had recovered._
   - _Some ancient sects held all conjunction with women to be a source of impurity._

## Origin

From Old French conjonction, from Latin coniūnctiō ("joining"), from coniungere ("to join").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/conjunction (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).