disjunction
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noun
- The act of disjoining; disunion, separation.
- The state of being disjoined, contrasting, or opposing.
- The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator.
- A logical operator that results in “true” when any of its operands are true.
- During meiosis, the separation of chromosomes (homologous in meiosis I, and sister chromatids in meiosis II).
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From Old French disjunction, from Latin disiunctiō.
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