disjunctive
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English disjunctief, disjunctyf, from Middle French disjunctif and Latin disjunctīvus (“placed in opposition”).
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disjunctive (comparative more disjunctive, superlative most disjunctive)
- Not connected; separated.
- 1985, John Jones, Dostoevsky, Oxford University Press, USA
- That broken comb exemplifies the apparently inexhaustible strength of the novel's flotsam, its disjunctive detail which makes nevertheless for tonal coherence.
- 1985, John Jones, Dostoevsky, Oxford University Press, USA
- (grammar, of a personal pronoun) Not used in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject.
- Tending to disjoin; separating.
- (music) Relating to disjunct tetrachords.
- 2005, Simon P. Keefe, The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 206:
- […] that the phrase should be articulated in one breath; failing this, Quantz recommends that breath should be taken wherever possible on tied notes, between disjunctive notes of continuous semiquavers or at other equivalent moments.
- (logic) Of or related to a disjunction.
- 1873, Sir William Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, page 235:
- An opposition of contrariety is not of purely logical concernment; and a disjunctive syllogism with characters opposed in contrariety, in fact, consists of as many pure disjunctive syllogisms as there are opposing predicates.
- 1873, Sir William Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, page 235:
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TranslationsEdit
not connected, separated
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grammar, of a personal pronoun: not used in immediate conjunction
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tending to disjoin; separating
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music: relating to disjunct tetrachords
NounEdit
disjunctive (plural disjunctives)
- (logic) A disjunction.
- L. H. Atwater
- Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals.
- L. H. Atwater
- (grammar) A disjunct.
TranslationsEdit
disjunction — see disjunction
Further readingEdit
- Disjunctive pronoun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Logical disjunction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
LatinEdit
AdjectiveEdit
disjūnctīve