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con⋅junct

  [adj. kuhn-juhngkt, kon-juhngkt; n. kon-juhngkt]
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–adjective
1. bound in close association; conjoined; combined; united: conjunct ideas; conjunct influences.
2. formed by conjunction.
3. Grammar.
a. occurring only in combination with an immediately preceding or following form of a particular class, and constituting with this form a single phonetic unit, as 'll in English he'll, and n't in isn't.
b. (of a pronoun) having enclitic or proclitic form and occurring with a verb, as French me, le, se.
c. pertaining to a word so characterized.
4. Music. progressing melodically by intervals of a second: conjunct motion of an ascending scale.
–noun
5. Logic. either of the propositions in a conjunction.
6. Grammar. a conjunctive adverb.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME (ptp.) < L conjunctus joined, connected (ptp. of conjungere to join together), equiv. to con- con- + junc- (var. s. of jungere to join) + -tus ptp. suffix

Related forms:
con⋅junct⋅ly, adverb
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con·junct   (kən-jŭngkt', kŏn'jŭngkt')   
adj.  

  1. Joined together; united.

  2. Acting in association; combined: "the conjunct . . . influences of fire and strong drink" (Thomas Love Peacock).

  3. Music Of or relating to successive tones of the scale, moving step by step: conjunct motion; a conjunct melody.

n.   (kŏn'jŭngkt')

  1. One that is in conjunction or association with another.

  2. Logic One of the components of a conjunction.


[Middle English, from Latin coniūnctus, past participle of coniungere, to join together; see conjoin.]
con·junct'ly adv.
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