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Definition of disjunctive in English: disjunctiveadjective dɪsˈdʒʌŋ(k)tɪvdɪsˈdʒəŋktɪv 1Lacking connection or consistency. 分离的;不连贯的 the novel's disjunctive detail 这部小说不连贯的细节。 Example sentencesExamples - I should probably be more careful of my disjunctive anecdotes in class, lest any inferences between the story and the actual topic at hand are accidentally made.
- The turn of a corner, like the flick of a film frame, can redefine the nature of a disjunctive, heterogeneous spatial continuum.
- Issues of artistic identity, the pleasure of looking and political responsibility result from an exploration of disjunctive image and sound.
- The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.
- In these later works, the two elements are physically disjunctive.
- The allusions are swift, the collisions reminiscent of the ‘ply over ply’ technique of Ezra Pound's Cantos, but to more disjunctive ends.
- Though historical scholarship (or at least something akin to that) was not entirely unknown in South Asia, the history the colonial historians produced was disjunctive with the constructions of the past the South Asians knew.
- For them to call themselves a community group is disjunctive with the use of language.
- The revolutionary illusions have gone, but the disjunctive approach to reality (which gave rise to those illusions) lives on.
- The book is a series of disjunctive jottings, often compelling in themselves, but not always smoothly related.
- These realizations made their marks on his own disjunctive history.
- Swensen reins in the use of disjunctive techniques, as Gander does, by structuring the volume according to a clear pattern.
2Grammar (of a conjunction) expressing a choice between two mutually exclusive possibilities, for example or in she asked if he was going or staying. 〔语法〕(连词)转折的,反意的,区别的。比较COPULATIVE Compare with copulative Example sentencesExamples - Funk points out that the particle H displays its sharpest disjunctive characteristics in interrogative sentences.
- You could object a bit to the way the disjunctive choice is set up.
- But it is a fair presumption that the belief in exclusive disjunctive uses of or in English includes just such three-disjunct uses of or.
- This is particularly evident with disjunctive queries, which use the minus sign to exclude particular search terms.
- All three articles attempt to clarify the determinate-determinable relation by explaining the nature of disjunctive and conjunctive predicates.
- 2.1Logic (of a proposition) expressing alternatives.
〔逻〕选言命题的,析取命题的 Example sentencesExamples - He also discusses the disjunctive propositions which follow from a conditional proposition.
- Creationists are thus accused of the fallacy of false alternatives, that is, the disjunctive premise leaves out a possible alternative.
- Some philosophers suggest that there is an important logical difference between disjunctive predicates, on the one hand, and disjunctive properties or universals, on the other.
- The inference rule of disjunctive syllogism, while truth-preserving, is not falsity-avoiding.
- This is an algebraic expression of the disjunctive normal form theorem of sentential logic.
noun dɪsˈdʒʌŋ(k)tɪvdɪsˈdʒəŋktɪv Grammar 1A disjunctive conjunction or other word. 〔语法〕转折连词,反意连词,区别连词 Example sentencesExamples - Further, this view requires us to alter the language of clause (B) to replace the "or" disjunctives with "and" conjunctives.
- Ultimately, all disjunctives are part of the same continuum as conjunctives.
- The intensity of the disjunctive which any particular H conveys is dependent upon its context.
- 1.1Logic A disjunctive proposition.
〔逻〕选言命题,析取命题 Example sentencesExamples - But it follows anyway that the laws of intricate logic for hypotheticals may be used to obtain analogous laws for disjunctives; and vice versa.
- The critical interpretive question is whether the disjunctive should be viewed either as two separate conditions, or as two different ways of describing the same condition.
- The standard way of defining disjunctives in logic is in terms of their truth tables
Derivativesadverb It is an indication that the statements in the items are not linked conjunctively or disjunctively. Example sentencesExamples - Just going back to this order that was made here, it is expressed disjunctively, is it not?
- Object and effect should be read disjunctively.
- Because those are both conjunctively and disjunctively expressed.
- The appellant submits that the words ‘produced or handed over’ in article 14 of Regulation 3821/85 should be construed disjunctively.
OriginLate Middle English (in sense 2 of the adjective): from Latin disjunctivus, from disjunct- 'disjoined' (see disjunct). Definition of disjunctive in US English: disjunctiveadjectivedisˈjəNGktivdɪsˈdʒəŋktɪv 1Lacking connection. 分离的;不连贯的 the novel's disjunctive detail 这部小说不连贯的细节。 Example sentencesExamples - The book is a series of disjunctive jottings, often compelling in themselves, but not always smoothly related.
- The turn of a corner, like the flick of a film frame, can redefine the nature of a disjunctive, heterogeneous spatial continuum.
- In these later works, the two elements are physically disjunctive.
- Swensen reins in the use of disjunctive techniques, as Gander does, by structuring the volume according to a clear pattern.
- Though historical scholarship (or at least something akin to that) was not entirely unknown in South Asia, the history the colonial historians produced was disjunctive with the constructions of the past the South Asians knew.
- The allusions are swift, the collisions reminiscent of the ‘ply over ply’ technique of Ezra Pound's Cantos, but to more disjunctive ends.
- For them to call themselves a community group is disjunctive with the use of language.
- Issues of artistic identity, the pleasure of looking and political responsibility result from an exploration of disjunctive image and sound.
- These realizations made their marks on his own disjunctive history.
- I should probably be more careful of my disjunctive anecdotes in class, lest any inferences between the story and the actual topic at hand are accidentally made.
- The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.
- The revolutionary illusions have gone, but the disjunctive approach to reality (which gave rise to those illusions) lives on.
2Grammar (of a conjunction) expressing a choice between two mutually exclusive possibilities, for example or in she asked if he was going or staying. 〔语法〕(连词)转折的,反意的,区别的。比较COPULATIVE Compare with copulative Example sentencesExamples - All three articles attempt to clarify the determinate-determinable relation by explaining the nature of disjunctive and conjunctive predicates.
- But it is a fair presumption that the belief in exclusive disjunctive uses of or in English includes just such three-disjunct uses of or.
- Funk points out that the particle H displays its sharpest disjunctive characteristics in interrogative sentences.
- This is particularly evident with disjunctive queries, which use the minus sign to exclude particular search terms.
- You could object a bit to the way the disjunctive choice is set up.
- 2.1Logic (of a proposition) expressing alternatives.
〔逻〕选言命题的,析取命题的 Example sentencesExamples - This is an algebraic expression of the disjunctive normal form theorem of sentential logic.
- Creationists are thus accused of the fallacy of false alternatives, that is, the disjunctive premise leaves out a possible alternative.
- He also discusses the disjunctive propositions which follow from a conditional proposition.
- Some philosophers suggest that there is an important logical difference between disjunctive predicates, on the one hand, and disjunctive properties or universals, on the other.
- The inference rule of disjunctive syllogism, while truth-preserving, is not falsity-avoiding.
noundisˈjəNGktivdɪsˈdʒəŋktɪv Grammar 1A disjunctive conjunction or other word. 〔语法〕转折连词,反意连词,区别连词 Example sentencesExamples - Further, this view requires us to alter the language of clause (B) to replace the "or" disjunctives with "and" conjunctives.
- The intensity of the disjunctive which any particular H conveys is dependent upon its context.
- Ultimately, all disjunctives are part of the same continuum as conjunctives.
- 1.1Logic A disjunctive proposition.
〔逻〕选言命题,析取命题 Example sentencesExamples - The critical interpretive question is whether the disjunctive should be viewed either as two separate conditions, or as two different ways of describing the same condition.
- But it follows anyway that the laws of intricate logic for hypotheticals may be used to obtain analogous laws for disjunctives; and vice versa.
- The standard way of defining disjunctives in logic is in terms of their truth tables
OriginLate Middle English (in disjunctive (sense 2 of the adjective)): from Latin disjunctivus, from disjunct- ‘disjoined’ (see disjunct). |