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The act of breaking a connection
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disjunction
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Anticipated here is that always unstable disjunction between identification and desire upon which male bonding depends. ▪ In a turbulent environment, diversity, contradiction and disjunction are the norm. ▪ In fact, the disjunction ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disjunction \Dis*junc"tion\, n. [L. disjunctio.] The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body. A disjunctive proposition. --Coleridge.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. state of being disconnected [syn: disjuncture , disconnection , disconnectedness ] [ant: connection ] the act of breaking a connection [syn: disconnection ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 act of disjoining; disunion, separation 2 state of being disjoined 3 (context logic English) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator. 4 (context mathematics English) a logical operator that results ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, disjunccioun , from Old French disjunction (13c.) or directly from Latin disjunctionem "separation," noun of action from past participle stem of disjungere (see disjointed ).
Usage examples of disjunction.
As with Arkadina, the familiar Chekhovian disjunction between reading and subsequent action once again appears at the heart of, as the truth of, acting.
The very formulation of these rules for neutrals shows that the decisive thing is the conflict, the friend-enemy disjunction.
Insofar as the absolute disjunction of the literary and the nonliterary had been the root assumption of mainstream Anglo-American criticism in the mid-twentieth century, deconstruction emerged as a liberating challenge, a salutary return of the literary text to the condition of all other texts and a simultaneous assault on the positivist certitude of the nonliterary, the privileged realm of historical fact.
Horace, and scholars such as Fraenkel and Rudd who seek to account for the structures of the first three diatribes must explain the disjunction between shifts in apparent subject and shifts in tone.
Staving off disjunction crisis for ten or eleven transfers is not an absurd goal.
He suffers every day from schizophrenic disjunctions between the real and the imaginary, between self and other, between vitalism and mechanism, between mind and body.
Disjunction seems of all expedients worst: If any stay, then stay should every man, Gather, inlace, and close up hip to hip, And perk and bristle hedgehog-like with spines!
He appeared, saying, 'The case of Peters, with his mild punishment, gratifies our liberal instincts but represents a case of cognitive dissonance, the disjunction between reality and one's ideas.
Are we any more a-historical than anyone else has been, or is this a particular disjunction in our cultural history where we just no longer care about looking backwards?
Orlgaun wheeled again, and Manshoon shook where he sat on the broad, scaled back from the aftereffects of the mighty disjunction he had worked.
There was a wedding scene, festivals, the dedication of a new building, a disjunction party portrait, a 'family-tree diagram, even a collage of mementos.