Definition of "conjunction" []

• The act of joining. (noun)
• The state of being joined. (noun)
• A joint or simultaneous occurrence; concurrence: the conjunction of historical and economic forces that created a depression. (noun)
• One resulting from or embodying a union; a combination: "He is, in fact, a remarkable conjunction of talents” ( Jerry Adler). (noun)
• Grammar The part of speech that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences. (noun)

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• "The word "conjunction" is also used when the earth, the sun, and one of the other planets are all in the same plane."
• "My students are amazed – and grateful – to be told that starting a sentence with a conjunction is all right."
• "The idea conveyed by what we call the conjunction "and" is expressed in Chinese by an ideogram, viz. 及, which was originally the picture of a hand, seizing what might be the tail of the coat of a man preceding, _scilicet_ following."