Disjunction (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. the act of disjoining or the state of being disjoined: a disjunction between thought and action.
  2. Logic.
    • a compound proposition that is true if and only if at least one of a number of alternatives is true.
    • a compound proposition that is true if and only if one and only one of a number of alternatives is true.
    • the relation among the components of such a proposition, usually expressed by OR or V.
noun
  1. the act of disconnecting or the state of being disconnected; separation
  2. the separation of the chromosomes of each homologous pair during the anaphase of meiosis
  3. logic
    • the operator that forms a compound sentence from two given sentences and corresponds to the English or
    • a sentence so formed. Usually written pq where p, q are the component sentences, it is true (inclusive sense) whenever either or both of the latter are true; the exclusive disjunction, for which there is no symbol, is true when either but not both disjuncts is
    • the relation between such sentences
Disjunction (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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