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Disjunctive adj.

Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.

(Mus.) Pertaining to disjunct tetrachords. "Disjunctive notes."

Disjunctive conjunction (Gram.), one connecting grammatically two words or clauses, expressing at the same time an opposition or separation inherent in the notions or thoughts; as, either, or, neither, nor, but, although, except, lest, etc.

Disjunctive proposition, a proposition in which the parts are connected by disjunctive conjunctions, specifying that one of two or more propositions may hold, but that no two propositions may hold at the same time; as it is either day or night.

Disjunctive syllogism (Logic), one in which the major proposition is disjunctive; as, the earth moves in a circle or an ellipse; but in does not move in a circle, therefore it moves in an ellipse.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disjunctive" Quotes from Famous Books

... would have Peace stand between their friendships like a comma between two words.' Every point has in it a conjunctive, as well as a disjunctive element: the former seems the one regarded here—only that some amities require more than a comma to separate them. The comma does not make much of a figure—is good enough for its position, however; if indeed the fact be not, that, instead of standing ...

— The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 • George MacDonald

... disjunctive is simple (i.e. unaccompanied with the word either or neither) the verb agrees with the ...

— A Handbook of the English Language • Robert Gordon Latham

Words linked to "Disjunctive" : divisional, partitive, disjunctive conjunction, alternative, separative, disjoin