conjunct

UK: /kənˈdʒʌŋkt/, /ˈkɒndʒʌŋkt/

US: (adj. kən jungkt′, kon′jungkt; n. kon′jungkt)

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con•junct  (adj. kən jungkt′, kon′jungkt;n. kon′jungkt), adj. 

1. bound in close association;
   conjoined;
   combined;
   united:
   conjunct ideas; conjunct influences.
2. formed by conjunction.
3. Grammar
   • 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.
   • (of a pronoun) having enclitic or proclitic form and occurring with a verb, as French me, le, se.
   • pertaining to a word so characterized.
4. Music and Dance progressing melodically by intervals of a second:
   conjunct motion of an ascending scale.

n. 

5. Philosophy [Logic.] either of the propositions in a conjunction.
6. Grammar a conjunctive adverb.

• Latin conjunctus joined, connected (past participle of conjungere to join together), equivalent. to con- con- + junc- (variant stem of jungere to join) + -tus past participle suffix
• late Middle English (past participle) 1425–75

con•junct′ly, adv. 

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conjunct / kənˈdʒʌŋkt ˈkɒndʒʌŋkt/ noun

1. one of the propositions or formulas in a conjunction

Etymology: 15th Century: from Latin conjunctus, from conjugere to unite; see conjoin