different between compartment vs disjunction

English

Etymology

First attested 1564, from Middle French compartiment, from Italian compartimento, from Late Latin compartiri (“to divide with, to share with”), from com- + partiri (“to apportion, to divide, to share”)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?m?p??tm?nt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?m?p??tm?nt/
• Hyphenation: com?part?ment

Noun

compartment (plural compartments)

1. A room, or section, or chamber

   Two men were seated in a well-lighted compartment of a third-class railway carriage.

2. One of the parts into which an area is subdivided.
3. (biochemistry) Part of a protein that serves a specific function.
4. (heraldry) A mound (often of grass) beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand.
5. (anatomy) A region in the body, delimited by a biological membrane.

Derived terms

• engine compartment

Translations

Verb

compartment (third-person singular simple present compartments, present participle compartmenting, simple past and past participle compartmented)

1. (transitive) To arrange in separate compartments.

English

Etymology

From Old French disjunction, from Latin disjunctio

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s?d???k(t)??n/, /d?s?d???k(t)??n/

  Rhymes: -??k??n

Noun

disjunction (countable and uncountable, plural disjunctions)

1. The act of disjoining; disunion, separation.
2. The state of being disjoined.
3. (logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator.
4. (mathematics) A logical operator that results in “true” when some of its operands are true.
5. (biology) During meiosis, the separation of chromosomes (homologous in meiosis I, and sister chromatids in meiosis II).

Hypernyms

• (in mathematics): logical connective

Hyponyms

• (in logic): inclusive disjunction
• (in logic): exclusive disjunction

Meronyms

• (in logic): disjunct

Coordinate terms

• (in mathematics): conjunction

Derived terms

• disjunctive normal form

Related terms

• disjoin
• disjoint
• disjunct
• disjunctive

Translations

See also

• conjunction

References

• "Disjunction" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• "Disjunction" in Wolfram MathWorld
• disjunction at OneLook Dictionary Search