Disjunctive

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  • adjective. Serving to separate or divide.
  • adjective. Serving to establish a relationship of contrast or opposition. The conjunction but in the phrase poor but comfortable is disjunctive.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Of a proposition that presents two or more alternative terms.
  • adjective. Of a syllogism that contains a disjunction as one premise.
  • noun. A disjunctive conjunction.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Serving or tending to disjoin; separating; dividing; distinguishing: as, a disjunctive conjunction.
  • Incapable of joining or uniting.
  • Comprising or marked by a disjunction or separation of parts.
  • In music, pertaining to disjunct tetrachords: as, a disjunctive interval
  • noun. In grammar, a word that disjoins; a disjunctive conjunction, as or, nor, neither.
  • noun. In logic, a disjunctive proposition.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A disjunctive conjunction.
  • noun. A disjunctive proposition.
  • adjective. Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.
  • adjective. Pertaining to disjunct tetrachords.
  • adjective. 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.
  • adjective. 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.
  • adjective. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Not connected. Separated
  • adjective. Of a personal pronoun, not used in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject, examples:
  • noun. A disjunction.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. serving or tending to divide or separate
  • Word Usage
    "This is what I call disjunctive politics, i.e., politics in which choices are made by the disjunctive syllogism: A or B; not A; therefore, B."
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