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Disjunctive   Listen
adjective
Disjunctive  adj.  
1.
Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.
2.
(Mus.) Pertaining to disjunct tetrachords. "Disjunctive notes."
Disjunctive conjunction (Gram.), one connecting grammatically two words or clauses, expressing at the same time an opposition or separation inherent in the notions or thoughts; as, either, or, neither, nor, but, although, except, lest, etc.
Disjunctive proposition, a proposition in which the parts are connected by disjunctive conjunctions, specifying that one of two or more propositions may hold, but that no two propositions may hold at the same time; as it is either day or night.
Disjunctive syllogism (Logic), one in which the major proposition is disjunctive; as, the earth moves in a circle or an ellipse; but in does not move in a circle, therefore it moves in an ellipse.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Disjunctive" Quotes from Famous Books



... 2. Whenever the disjunctive is simple (i.e. unaccompanied with the word either or neither) the verb agrees with the first of ...
— A Handbook of the English Language • Robert Gordon Latham

... ingenuity Pope's Translation of the Iliad; still a point was looked for at the end of each second line, and the whole was, as it were, a sorites, or, if I may exchange a logical for a grammatical metaphor, a conjunction disjunctive, of epigrams. Meantime the matter and diction seemed to me characterized not so much by poetic thoughts, as by thoughts translated into the language of poetry. On this last point, I had occasion to render my own thoughts gradually ...
— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... again, are diverse. Thus: my contrary axioms are Disjunctive, and Subdisjunctive; and so, with the rest. So, too, in degree, ...
— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) • Herman Melville



Words linked to "Disjunctive" :   oppositive, disjoin, partitive, divisional, separative



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