Word Finder - conjunctions

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The act of joining, or condition of being joined.

synonyms

• connection
• union

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(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.

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The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.

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An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.

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The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ (\and) operator.

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Sexual intercourse.

Propitiatory abstinences were recommended when the natal asterism was menaced by unfavourable planetary conjunctions.

Certain astronomical conjunctions determined the selection of the fast-days, which in their total number amounted to nearly a quarter of the year.

She declared that in politics a capable ruler must be guided by "circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions."

The conjunction was by hypothesis not given, and is a new result by no_ means to be reached, apart from direct perception save by use of at least two given conjunctions.

It also contains an appendix with detailed tables of conjunctions.

In the range of perception, intellect is subjected to the material conditions of sense, memory and imagination; and in infancy, when the will has allowed itself to assent precipitately to the conjunctions presented to it by these material processes, thought has become filled with obscure ideas.

The same progress towards flexibility in syntax is seen in the copious supply of conjunctions possessed by Syriac. No doubt the tendency towards a more flowing construction of sentences was helped by the influence of Greek, which has also supplied a large stock of words to the Syriac vocabulary.

Subordinating conjunctions are distinguished in the lexicon by the label " S " rather than " C ".

The commoner conjunctions are a, ac, " and "; ond, eithr," but "; o, os, " if "; pan, " when "; tra, " while."

So again in determining the " import " of propositions, it is no accident that in all save existential propositions it is to the familiar rubrics of associationism - co-existence, sequence, causation and resemblance - that he refers for classification, while his general formula as to the conjunctions of connotations is associationist through and through.

In the case of the planets it is the period between successive conjunctions of the same kind, inferior or superior, with the sun.

The successive entries of the moon and planets into the nakshatras (the ascertainment of which was of great astrological importance) were fixed by means of their conjunctions with the yogataras.

The nerve of proof in the processes by which he establishes causal conjunctions of unlimited application is naturally thought to lie in the special canons of the several processes and the axioms of universal and uniform causation which form their background.

The successive conjunctions following will be along CR 2, CS2, CQ3, &c., the law of progression being obvious.

The balancing of the series of forces will not be complete until the respective triplets of conjunctions have filled up the entire space between them.

In the Ephemerides published year by year, the times of new moon were given, together with the calculated intervals to the first visibility of the crescent, from which the beginning of each month was reckoned; the dates and circumstances of solar and lunar eclipses were predicted; and due information was supplied as to the forthcoming heliacal risings and settings, conjunctions and oppositions of the planets.