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Definition of Disjunction
1. Noun. State of being disconnected.
Generic synonyms: Separation
Specialized synonyms: Separability, Incoherence, Incoherency
Antonyms: Connectedness
Derivative terms: Disconnected, Disconnected, Disconnected, Disjoin, Disjoin, Disjoin
2. Noun. The act of breaking a connection.
Definition of Disjunction
1. n. The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body.
Definition of Disjunction
1. Noun. act of disjoining; disunion, separation ¹
2. Noun. state of being disjoined ¹
3. Noun. (logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator. ¹
4. Noun. (mathematics) a logical operator that results in true when some of its operands are true. ¹
5. Noun. (biology) During meiosis, the separation of chromosomes (homologous in meiosis I, and sister chromatids in meiosis II). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disjunction
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Disjunction
1. The normal separation of pairs of chromosomes at the anaphase stage of meiosis I or II. Origin: dis-+ L. Junctio, a joining, fr. Jungo, pp. Junctum, to join (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disjunction
Literary usage of Disjunction
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Genetics; an Introduction to the Study of Heredity by Herbert Eugene Walter (1922)
"NON-disjunction A striking confirmation of the chromosomal interpretation of sex
is furnished by the phenomenon of non-disjunction discovered in 1913 by ..."
2. Studies in Philosophical Criticism and Construction by Sydney Herbert Mellone (1897)
"If regarded simply as an affirmation about an individual, disjunction is merely
a stage in the removal of ignorance: ' A is either B or C ' signifies that ..."
3. The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha: Or, Review of the Different Systems of Hindu by Mādhava, Edward Byles Cowell, Archibald Edward Gouch (1908)
"disjunction produced by disjunction " is twofold,—• that produced by the disjunction
of the intimate [of material] causes only, and that produced by the ..."
4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1838)
"disjunction Bill—Non-Re. ... on disjunction Bill, and Defeat of Ministers—Discussion
on the Dowry df the Queen of Belgium—Report of the Committee on African ..."
5. Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila by Thomas Hunt Morgan, Calvin Blackman Bridges (1916)
"THE Y CHROMOSOME AND NON-disjunction. Following Wilson's nomenclature, we speak
of both X and Y as sex chromosomes. Both the cytological and the genetic ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1823)
"The interjecting a circumstance between a relative word and that to which it
relates, is more properly termed inversion ; because, by a disjunction of words ..."
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