different between disjuncture vs disjunction

English

Etymology

dis- +? juncture

Noun

disjuncture (plural disjunctures)

1. A lack of union, or lack of coordination, or separation.
   • 2005, Alison I. Griffith and Dorothy E. Smith, Mothering for Schooling,^[1] page 47:

     In this chapter, we look at how women coordinate the everyday scheduling disjuncture between paid employment, both theirs and their husbands,^[sic] and the scheduling of the school.

Latin

Participle

disj?nct?re

1. vocative masculine singular of disj?nct?rus

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