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Disjuncture vs Disjunction - What's the difference?

disjuncture | disjunction |

As nouns the difference between disjuncture and disjunction

is that disjuncture is a lack of union, or lack of coordination, or separation while disjunction is act of disjoining; disunion, separation.

disjuncture

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A lack of union, or lack of coordination, or separation.
  • * 2005 , Alison I. Griffith and Dorothy E. Smith, Mothering for Schooling , page 47:
    • In this chapter, we look at how women coordinate the everyday scheduling disjuncture between paid employment, both theirs and their husbands,(SIC) and the scheduling of the school.

    disjunction

    English

    (wikipedia disjunction)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • act of disjoining; disunion, separation
  • state of being disjoined
  • (logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator.
  • (mathematics) a logical operator that results in true when some of its operands are true.
  • (biology) During meiosis, the separation of chromosomes (homologous in meiosis I, and sister chromatids in meiosis II).

    • Coordinate terms

    * (in mathematics) conjunction

    Hypernyms

    * (in mathematics) logical connective

    Hyponyms

    * (in logic) inclusive disjunction * (in logic) exclusive disjunction

    Meronyms

    * (in logic) disjunct

    Derived terms

    * disjunctive normal form

    Related terms

    * disjoin * disjoint * disjunct * disjunctive

    See also

    * conjunction

    References

    * "Disjunction" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy * "Disjunction" in Wolfram MathWorld *