Definition of "conjoint" [con•joint]

• Joined together; combined: "social order and prosperity, the conjoint aims of government” ( John K. Fairbank). (adjective)
• Of, consisting of, or involving two or more combined or associated entities; joint. (adjective)

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• "Two subsumptively unified states will have what they call a conjoint phenomenology: a phenomenology of having both states at once that subsumes the phenomenology of the individual states:"
• "This process by which utilities are simultaneously assigned within classes and in total so as to satisfy an additivity property has become known as conjoint measurement."
• "These early forays into so-called conjoint therapy were inspired in part by psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan, the one who argued that life is a series of “security operations” to fend off anxiety."