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Collision vs Conjunction - What's the difference?

collision | conjunction |

As nouns the difference between collision and conjunction

is that collision is an instance of colliding while conjunction is the act of joining, or condition of being joined.

collision

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An instance of colliding.
  • * 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2
  • At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision .

    Derived terms

    * collision course * collisional *

    Coordinate terms

    * allision

    conjunction

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
  • (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
  • *, vol.1. ch.29:
  • Certaine Nations (and amongst others, the Mahometane) abhorre Conjunction with women great with childe.
  • (grammar) A word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences. The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related. Example: Bread, butter and cheese.
  • (astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.
  • (astrology) An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
  • (logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the (\and) operator.
  • Coordinate terms

    * (in logic) disjunction

    Hypernyms

    * (in logic) logical connective

    Meronyms

    * (in logic) conjunct

    Derived terms

    * inferior conjunction * superior conjunction * conjunctive normal form

    See also

    * disjunction