adjunctionn.
/əˈdʒʌŋ(k)ʃn/, U.S. /əˈdʒəŋ(k)ʃ(ə)n/ 1. The action or process of adding something to something else; the joining or uniting of one thing or person with another.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > [noun] > attaching or affixing
affixionc1429
tachingc1440
onsetting1501
adjunction?1545
annexing1573
affixation1610
tethering1672
accretion1713
attachment1753
attaching1764
affixture1854
adhibition1866
?1545 C. Langton Introd. Phisycke ii. ii. sig. G.vi In nutrition, there muste fyrste be adiunction, and then agglutination.
1596 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1833) I. 80 Be the adjunctione of the said kirkis to the presbiterie of Glasgw.
1618 W. Raleigh Remains (1644) 270 That supposition, that your Majesties Subjects give nothing but with adjunction of their own interest.
1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico iii. 71 It never entered into his mind, by that adjunction of Bishops to impose the Spanish Inquisition upon the Low-countreys.
1707 F. Grant Patriot Resolved 30 Nor does this last, homologat the Adjunction of a civil to a sacred Power.
1777 W. Young Spirit of Athens 208 To silence the clamours of the discontented, they decreed the adjunction of five thousand more to their number.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 182 This adjunction of epithets for the purpose of additional description.
1873 A. Müller Venice (ed. 2) 86 The bell tower stands apart from the church, whose oriental style also would not allow its adjunction.
1905 Times 1 Dec. 6/3 Sir N. O'Conor telegraphed from Constantinople suggesting that the moment was favourable for suggesting the 'adjunction' to the existing Civil Agents of Austria and Russia of four delegates of the Western Powers.
1996 New Republic (Nexis) 18 Nov. 42 The adjunction of poetry to image in Chinese painting.
2. That which is joined or added to something else; an adjunct.
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1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church sig. ¶6 Resolue the Apostles wordes either with a causall or conditionall adiunction, which is plainly the speakers intent.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1355 The second syllable θε is an adjunction [Fr. adionction] idle and superfluous.
1606 P. Holland in tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars Annot. 2 By Curia simply without any adiunction, is ment Curia Hostilia.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Adjunction, the thing joined.
1821 T. Lumby Copy of Let. to Chancellor upon Stock Jobbing 12 Two of these imaginable parts, are integral and independent bodies, having no essential or participant relation to its constitution; with which they will be found to be connected only as adjunctions.
1889 Decorator & Furnisher 14 92/1 The neck exhibiting very delicate foliated scrolls, repeated with adjunctions on the body.
1921 N. L. Redfield & F. d'Olivet Hebraic Tongue Restored ix. 231 Verbs similar to the one just cited, where the sign is not an adjunction, belong to the derivative conjugation.
1976 New Lit. Hist. 8 84 A group of memories..remodeled and transformed by the censorship, the 'dreamwork', the imaginary adjunctions, etc.
2002 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 26 Jan. 7 Malaysian officialdom was shown around the light modern structure with its Middle Eastern adjunctions, and four months later, it opened.
3. Mathematics. The process of joining a set or element with a set without overlapping, so as to form another complete set. Cf. adjoin v. 5.
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > transformation > [noun] > correspondence > other
adjunction1891
homotopy1918
functor1942
1891 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 13 138 The different groups through which we pass in the process of successive adjunction must form a series of groups beginning with G, ending with 1.
1904 F. Cajori Introd. Mod. Theory Equations xiii. 135 This process of obtaining the domain Ω (a) from Ω is called adjunction. We say that we adjoin a to Ω and obtain Ω (a).
1947 R. Courant & H. E. Robbins What is Math.? (ed. 4) iii. §2. 132 It is assumed that √κ is a new number not lying in f, since otherwise the process of adjunction of √κ would not lead to anything new.
1998 D. Bellos et al. tr. G. Ifrah Universal Hist. Numbers i. 20/1 The idea is really that integers are ‘collections’ of abstract units obtained successively by the adjunction of further units.
4. Logic. A complex proposition (typically of the form ‘p and q’) which is true only when the component propositions are all true; an operation resulting in such a proposition.Also called conjunction.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > [noun] > conjunctive or non-conjunctive proposition
conjunctivea1856
determinant1887
conjunction1903
conjunct1921
non-conjunction1926
adjunction1932
1932 C. I. Lewis & C. H. Langford Symbolic Logic vi. §1. 126 Adjunction. Any two expressions which have been separately asserted may be jointly asserted. That is, if p has been asserted, and q has been asserted, then pq may be asserted.
1962 W. Kneale & M. Kneale Devel. Logic ix. §4. 550 In Principia Mathematica, which allows inference from P and P ⊃ Q to Q, it is possible to dispense with Lewis's rule of adjunction because p ⊃ [q ⊃ (p.q)] is a theorem.
1978 I. Tammelo Mod. Logic in Service Law i. iv. 57 A formula is tautologous if it is an adjunction whose one adjunct is a counter-formula of the other adjunct.
2001 P. Long Logic, Form & Gram. 56 The transition from ‘A’ and ‘B’ to ‘A & B’ is licensed by the (schematic) rule of adjunction.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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