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Answer for the clue "The state of being joined ", 11 letters:
conjunction

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of joining, or condition of being joined. 2 (context obsolete English) sexual intercourse. 3 (context grammar English) A word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences. The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., originally of planets, from Old French conjonction "union, joining, sexual intercourse" (12c.), from Latin coniunctionem (nominative coniunctio ), from past participle stem of coniugare "join together" (see conjugal ). Compare Italian congiunzione ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the temporal property of two things happening at the same time; "the interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable" [syn: concurrence , coincidence , co-occurrence ] the state of being joined together [syn: junction , conjugation , colligation ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In grammar , a conjunction ( abbreviated or ) is a part of speech that connects words, sentences , phrases , or clauses . A discourse connective is a conjunction joining sentences. This definition may overlap with that of other parts of speech, so what ...

Usage examples of conjunction.

A magnificent, an unforeseen destiny now engrossed him, a destiny owed not wholly to his own merit nor to Angevin contrivance, but also to some happy conjunction of the planets.

This conjunction of the Sun with the Moon at the Vernal Equinox, in the constellation Taurus, required the Bull Apis to have on his shoulder a mark resembling the Crescent Moon.

But the significance here is that his parents have donated his brain and body to Biotech, in conjunction with the pathology department at the Chicago Medical School.

The broken character of the small western row, in conjunction with the clusters near it, imparts a distinct effect to the plan of this portion, differentiating it in character from the masses of houses formed by the other two rows.

A glance at the map will show that a force moving from this point in conjunction with another from Lydenburg might form the two crooked claws of a crab to enclose a great space of country, in which smaller columns might collect whatever was to be found.

Working over the blackened veld he swung round in the Barberton direction, and afterwards made a westerly drive in conjunction with small columns commanded by Walter Kitchener, Douglas, and Campbell of the Rifles, while Colville, Garnett, and Bullock co-operated from the Natal line.

He was elected member for Dorsetshire in both the Short and Long parliaments in 1640, and in conjunction with Pym and Hampden he took an active part in the opposition to Charles.

Ordinand had caused a huge flutter in the dovecotes of owners of good-as-gold horses, and I in conjunction with our chummy insurance syndicate at Lloyds was busy raising defenses against copycat kidnaps.

Alexius, who might herself have been the victim, expresses her abhorrence of his unnatural conjunction.

From 1920-1937, a series of enormous underwater structures, a steel and ferroconcrete grid, was inserted into many miles of the strait, often in conjunction with elaborate surface structures amounting to a minor city suspended over the water.

You have been made, to some extent, familiar with their personifications as Heroes suffering or triumphant, or as personal Gods or Goddesses, with human characteristics and passions, and with the multitude of legends and fables that do but allegorically represent their risings and settings, their courses, their conjunctions and oppositions, their domiciles and places of exaltation.

French and Spanish squadrons had sailed to the West Indies in conjunction, the design against Ferrol was wholly laid aside.

Terence introduced himself as the colonel of the two battalions that had arrived, at Miranda, to operate in conjunction with him, Moras held out his hand frankly.

American power elite in the rise of Hitler should also be viewed in conjunction with a little-known aspect of Hitlerism only now being explored: the mystical origins of Naziism, and its relations with the Thule Society and with other conspiratorial groups.

Britannic majesty to interpose his good offices, in conjunction with France and him, to compromise the disputes which threatened to embroil the northern parts of Europe.