conjunction

Etymology

From Old French conjonction, from Latin coniūnctiō (“joining”), from coniungere (“to join”).

noun

1. The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
   About them all there is that sort of stiff quaint unreality, that conjunction of the grotesque, and even of a certain bourgeois snugness, with passionate contortion and horror, that is so characteristic of Gothic art. 1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books
2. (grammar) A word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences. The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related.
   A comma is placed between short members of compound sentences, connected by and, but, for, nor, or, because, whereas, that expressing purpose (so that, in order that), and other conjunctions. 1881, Alfred Ayres [pseudonym; Thomas Embly Osmun], The Verbalist
3. Cooccurrence; coincidence.
   […] the coexistence of one such phenomenon with another; or the succession of one such phenomenon to another: their conjunction, in short, so that where the one is found, we may calculate on finding both. 1843, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, volume 1
4. (astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.
   The spectacular conjunction of Venus and Mars gave rise to a myriad of mythical interpretations. 2011, Starf*cker[…], Ev Cochrane, page 140
5. (astrology) An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
6. (logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ ( and ) operator.
   Meronyms: conjunct, logical connective
   Coordinate term: disjunction
7. A place where multiple things meet
   Today there is a mountain called Ararat near the conjunction of the Turkish, Armenian, and Iranian borders. 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 47
8. (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.