conjoin

Etymology

From Old French conjoindre, from Latin coniungo, from com- together + iungo join, equivalent to con- + join.

verb

1. (transitive) To join together; to unite; to combine.
   They are representatives that will loosely conjoin a nation.
   During an ongoing pandemic conjoined with an intensifying operational crisis inside U.S. prisons, mass clemency should be the first step of many toward a decarceral agenda that could still––if he’s bold enough to seize the opportunity––define Biden’s presidency. 25 January 2022, Eric Reinhardt, “How Joe Biden Launched a New Prison Boom”, in Slate
2. (transitive) To marry.
   I will conjoin you in holy matrimony.
3. (transitive, grammar) To join as coordinate elements, often with a coordinating conjunction, such as coordinate clauses.
4. (transitive, mathematics) To combine two sets, conditions, or expressions by a logical AND; to intersect.
5. (intransitive) To unite, to join, to league.

noun

1. (grammar) One of the words or phrases that are coordinated by a conjunction.
   Et is the general coordinator that can be used for all types of coordination, both clauses and constituents, regardless of the semantic relation between the conjoins. 2021, Harm Pinkster, The Oxford Latin Syntax, volumes 2, The Complex Sentence and Discourse, page 621
2. (archaeology) A reassembled bone, stone or ceramic artifact.
   Attention must also be given to understanding why certain sites yield a low number of conjoins. 1984, Ellen M. Kroll, Glynn Ll. Isaac, “Configurations of artifacts and bones at early Pleistocene sites in East Africa”, in Harold Hietala, editor, Intrasite Spatial Analysis in Archaeology, page 23