| NOUN | attribute | conjunction, concurrence, coincidence, co-occurrence | the temporal property of two things / things happening at the same time |
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| state | conjunction, junction, conjugation, colligation | the state of being joined together | |
| communication | conjunction, conjunctive, connective, continuative | an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | |
| relation | conjunction | the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction | |
| event | conjunction, alignment | (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac | |
| artifact | conjunction, junction | something that joins or connects |
| Sounds | kahnjhah'ngkshahn | |
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| Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... | |
| Meaning | The temporal property of two things / things happening at the same time. | |
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| Synonyms | concurrence, coincidence, co-occurrence | |
| Narrower | concomitance | occurrence or existence together or in connection with one another |
| contemporaneity, contemporaneousness | The quality of belonging to the same period of time | |
| overlap | The property of partial coincidence in time | |
| unison | Occurring together or simultaneously | |
| Broader | simultaneity, simultaneousness | happening or existing or done at the same time |
| Spanish | coincidencia, concurrencia, conjunción, co-ocurrencia | |
| Catalan | coincidència, concurrència, conjunció | |
| Meaning | The state of being joined together. | |
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| Synonyms | junction, conjugation, colligation | |
| Narrower | anastomosis, inosculation | A natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous |
| synapse | The junction between two neurons (axon-to-dendrite) or between a neuron and a muscle | |
| Broader | union, unification | The state of being joined or united or linked |
| Spanish | conjunción, unión | |
| Catalan | conjunció | |
| Meaning | An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences. | |
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| Synonyms | conjunctive, connective, continuative | |
| Narrower | coordinating conjunction | A conjunction (like 'and' or 'or') that connects two identically constructed grammatical constituents |
| subordinating conjunction, subordinate conjunction | A conjunction (like 'since' or 'that' or 'who') that introduces a dependent clause | |
| Broader | function word, closed-class word | A word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning / meaning |
| Spanish | conjunción, conjuntiva | |
| Catalan | conjunció, conjuntiva | |
| Meaning | The grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction. | |
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| Narrower | adversative conjunction | The conjunctive relation of units that expresses the opposition of their meanings |
| coordinating conjunction | The coordination by conjunction of linguistic units of the same status | |
| copulative conjunction | The conjunctive relation of units that expresses the addition of their meanings | |
| disjunctive conjunction | The conjunctive relation of units that expresses the disjunction of their meanings | |
| subordinating conjunction | The subordination that occurs when a conjunction makes one linguistic unit a constituent of another | |
| Broader | grammatical relation | A linguistic relation established by grammar |
| Spanish | conjunción | |
| Catalan | conjunció | |
| Meaning | (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac. | |
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| Synonym | alignment | |
| Category | astronomy, uranology | The branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole |
| Narrower | inferior conjunction | (astronomy) the alignment of the Earth and a planet on the same side of the sun |
| superior conjunction | (astronomy) the alignment of the Earth and a planet on the opposite side of the sun | |
| Broader | meeting, encounter | A casual or unexpected convergence |
| Spanish | conjunción | |
| Catalan | conjunció | |
| Meaning | Something that joins or connects. | |
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| Synonym | junction | |
| Narrower | contact, tangency | (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors / conductors) touch or are in physical contact |
| joint | junction by which parts or objects are joined together | |
| junction barrier, barrier strip | A junction unit for connecting 2 cables without the need for plugs | |
| splice, splicing | A junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together | |
| thermojunction | A junction between two dissimilar / dissimilar metals across which a voltage appears | |
| Broader | connection, connexion, connector, connecter, connective | An instrumentality that connects |
| Spanish | conjunción | |
| Catalan | conjunció | |
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