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Subjunction vs Conjunction - What's the difference?

subjunction | conjunction |

As nouns the difference between subjunction and conjunction

is that subjunction is act of subjoining, or state of being subjoined while conjunction is the act of joining, or condition of being joined.

subjunction

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Act of subjoining, or state of being subjoined.
  • Something subjoined.
  • a subjunction to a sentence
    (Webster 1913)

    conjunction

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
  • (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
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  • 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