Conjunction

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league.

II. Conjunction ·noun A connective or connecting word; an indeclinable word which serves to join together sentences, clauses of a sentence, or words; as, and, but, if.

III. Conjunction ·noun The meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as, the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter and Saturn. ·see the Note under Aspect, ·noun, 6.

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