Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Disjunctive \Dis*junc"tive\, n.
(Gram.) A disjunctive conjunction.
(Logic) A disjunctive proposition.
Disjunctive \Dis*junc"tive\, a. [L. disjunctivus: cf. F. disjonctif.]
Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.
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(Mus.) Pertaining to disjunct tetrachords. ``Disjunctive notes.''
--Moore (Encyc. of Music).Disjunctive conjunction (Gram.), one connecting grammatically two words or clauses, expressing at the same time an opposition or separation inherent in the notions or thoughts; as, either, or, neither, nor, but, although, except, lest, etc.
Disjunctive proposition, a proposition in which the parts are connected by disjunctive conjunctions, specifying that one of two or more propositions may hold, but that no two propositions may hold at the same time; as it is either day or night.
Disjunctive syllogism (Logic), one in which the major proposition is disjunctive; as, the earth moves in a circle or an ellipse; but in does not move in a circle, therefore it moves in an ellipse.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Not connected; separated. 2 (context grammar of a personal pronoun English) Not used in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject. For example: 3 Tending to disjoin; separating. 4 (context music English) Relating to disjunct tetrachords. n. (context logic English) A disjunction.
WordNet
adj. serving or tending to divide or separate [ant: conjunctive]
Wikipedia
Disjunctive can refer to:
- Disjunctive population, in population ecology, a group of plants or animals disconnected from the rest of its range
- Disjunctive pronoun
- Disjunctive set
- Disjunctive sequence
- Logical disjunction
Usage examples of "disjunctive".
Words in debate were one thing, the war quite another, but to Adams independence and the war were never disjunctive.
Thus the procedure of reason by which the transcendental ideal becomes the basis of the determination of all possible things, is analogous to that which reason follows in disjunctive syllogisms, a proposition on which I tried before to base the systematical division of all transcendental ideas, and according to which they are produced, as corresponding to the three kinds of the syllogisms of reason.