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Definition of disjunction in English: disjunctionnoun dɪsˈdʒʌŋ(k)ʃ(ə)nˌdɪsˈdʒəŋ(k)ʃ(ə)n 1A lack of correspondence or consistency. there is a disjunction between the skills taught in education and those demanded in the labour market Example sentencesExamples - Well the worst that could happen is that the amendment would in fact result in a disjunction between Australian law and the actual terms of the Free Trade Agreement.
- The disjunction between this study's actual data and the alarmist headlines its authors helped generate is especially remarkable.
- Nothing illustrated so well the disjunction between carefully formulated common aspirations and the reality of divergent values than the situation earlier this year.
- The radical disjunction between father and son in this scene (with the sign) is telling.
- Equally important has been the disjunction between the nation and the state in India, in sharp contrast with the western nation states during the origin of political democracy.
- Would not such a disjunction between achievement and status have made the notion of grace as an unmerited gift more attractive than can be the case among wage-earners today?
- Rather than seeing ‘mixing two things together’ as a flaw resulting from the creative process, might we see the disjunction as essential to the novel?
- What is at stake is the disjunction between economic valuation and ethical valuation.
- There is a shocking disjunction between the vast sums spent on a baby in neonatal intensive care and the small amount spent after the baby goes home.
- This disjunction between culture and nature is a source of some of the most enduring paradoxes in Australian settler society.
- Their different notions of exactly what that dream was amount to a kind of cosmic disjunction.
- Yet, viewed in a wider perspective, particularly in comparison with the United States, France, or West Germany, it is the disjunction between local and national politics in Britain that is so striking.
- Yet as Muller notes, the disjunction between intentions and outcomes ‘continues to make moralists queasy’.
- In many of the more classically pointillist, or ‘divisionist,’ works that Signac created over the next few years, the same disjunction between content and style prevails.
- In education we find the same disjunction between Aborigines who have moved into mainstream Australia and those still living in the remote communities.
- And there are several factors at work, but one of the most important, and one of the ones that has the most bearing, I think, in Australia, is the disjunction between what's happening in the economy and what's happening in society.
- But in other cases the police uncover a startling disjunction between appearance and reality.
- Her actions reveal the ability for self-aware introspection, as she acts on her awareness of the disjunction between her disembodiment and the humanly embodied knowledge she possesses.
- I don't think that he would be as worried about the ‘modern military's disjunction from American society.’
- He is also concerned with cultural loss, the disjunction between Aboriginal and European ways, and the hardships of life on Aboriginal settlements.
Synonyms disconnection, detachment, severance, uncoupling, dissociation, disassociation, disunion, disaffiliation, segregation 2Logic
mass noun The relation of two distinct alternatives. Example sentencesExamples - Of course, more complex formulas than these can easily be constructed, using more than one quantifier and symbols for negation, conjunction, disjunction, and so forth.
- Thus, classically, disjunction is semantically interpreted as a binary truth-function from the set of pairs of truth-values to the set { 0, 1 }.
- For degrees of truth, disjunction is a truth function.
- This applies, first and foremost, to the logical terminology: connectives such as negation, conjunction, disjunction, and if - then, and quantifiers like there is and for all.
- Conjunction and disjunction signs could then be defined from the negation and conditional signs.
- 2.1count noun A statement expressing the relation of two distinct alternatives (especially one using the word ‘or’).
Example sentencesExamples - In a statement of the form, the two statements joined together, and, are called the disjuncts, and the whole statement is called a disjunction.
- By referring to a dichotomous tree, this writer shows how to choose the proper disjunction relative to the terms in the disjuncts.
- Each of these is sufficient for M, as is any disjunction of them.
- Thus, he does not recognize sentential compounds, such as conjunctions and disjunctions, as single assertions.
- A predicate is exclusively disjunctive if and only it is equivalent to a disjunction of disjoint predicates.
Synonyms division, separation, divorce, split, gulf, chasm
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin disjunctio(n-), from disjungere 'disjoin' (see disjunct). Definition of disjunction in US English: disjunctionnounˌdɪsˈdʒəŋ(k)ʃ(ə)nˌdisˈjəNG(k)SH(ə)n 1A lack of correspondence or consistency. there is a disjunction between the skills taught in education and those demanded in the labor market Example sentencesExamples - Would not such a disjunction between achievement and status have made the notion of grace as an unmerited gift more attractive than can be the case among wage-earners today?
- Equally important has been the disjunction between the nation and the state in India, in sharp contrast with the western nation states during the origin of political democracy.
- Yet, viewed in a wider perspective, particularly in comparison with the United States, France, or West Germany, it is the disjunction between local and national politics in Britain that is so striking.
- But in other cases the police uncover a startling disjunction between appearance and reality.
- Well the worst that could happen is that the amendment would in fact result in a disjunction between Australian law and the actual terms of the Free Trade Agreement.
- Rather than seeing ‘mixing two things together’ as a flaw resulting from the creative process, might we see the disjunction as essential to the novel?
- He is also concerned with cultural loss, the disjunction between Aboriginal and European ways, and the hardships of life on Aboriginal settlements.
- Yet as Muller notes, the disjunction between intentions and outcomes ‘continues to make moralists queasy’.
- The radical disjunction between father and son in this scene (with the sign) is telling.
- What is at stake is the disjunction between economic valuation and ethical valuation.
- This disjunction between culture and nature is a source of some of the most enduring paradoxes in Australian settler society.
- There is a shocking disjunction between the vast sums spent on a baby in neonatal intensive care and the small amount spent after the baby goes home.
- Nothing illustrated so well the disjunction between carefully formulated common aspirations and the reality of divergent values than the situation earlier this year.
- The disjunction between this study's actual data and the alarmist headlines its authors helped generate is especially remarkable.
- Her actions reveal the ability for self-aware introspection, as she acts on her awareness of the disjunction between her disembodiment and the humanly embodied knowledge she possesses.
- I don't think that he would be as worried about the ‘modern military's disjunction from American society.’
- And there are several factors at work, but one of the most important, and one of the ones that has the most bearing, I think, in Australia, is the disjunction between what's happening in the economy and what's happening in society.
- In education we find the same disjunction between Aborigines who have moved into mainstream Australia and those still living in the remote communities.
- Their different notions of exactly what that dream was amount to a kind of cosmic disjunction.
- In many of the more classically pointillist, or ‘divisionist,’ works that Signac created over the next few years, the same disjunction between content and style prevails.
Synonyms disconnection, detachment, severance, uncoupling, dissociation, disassociation, disunion, disaffiliation, segregation 2Logic
The relationship between two distinct alternatives. Example sentencesExamples - This applies, first and foremost, to the logical terminology: connectives such as negation, conjunction, disjunction, and if - then, and quantifiers like there is and for all.
- For degrees of truth, disjunction is a truth function.
- Conjunction and disjunction signs could then be defined from the negation and conditional signs.
- Of course, more complex formulas than these can easily be constructed, using more than one quantifier and symbols for negation, conjunction, disjunction, and so forth.
- Thus, classically, disjunction is semantically interpreted as a binary truth-function from the set of pairs of truth-values to the set { 0, 1 }.
- 2.1 A statement expressing the relationship between two distinct alternatives (especially one using the word “or”).
Example sentencesExamples - In a statement of the form, the two statements joined together, and, are called the disjuncts, and the whole statement is called a disjunction.
- Thus, he does not recognize sentential compounds, such as conjunctions and disjunctions, as single assertions.
- By referring to a dichotomous tree, this writer shows how to choose the proper disjunction relative to the terms in the disjuncts.
- Each of these is sufficient for M, as is any disjunction of them.
- A predicate is exclusively disjunctive if and only it is equivalent to a disjunction of disjoint predicates.
Synonyms division, separation, divorce, split, gulf, chasm
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin disjunctio(n-), from disjungere ‘disjoin’ (see disjunct). |