Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Joined together; combined.
- adjective Of, consisting of, or involving two or more combined or associated entities; joint.
from The Century Dictionary.
- United; connected; associated; joined together; conjunct.
- noun In. law, a person connected with another in a joint interest or obligation, as a spouse or a co-tenant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective United; connected; associated.
- adjective (Mus.) two notes which follow each other immediately in the order of the scale, as
ut andre . - adjective (Mus.) two tetrachords or fourths, where the same note is the highest of one and the lowest of the other; -- also written
conjunct .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
joined together;combined ;joint
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective consisting of two or more associated entities
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Two subsumptively unified states will have what they call a conjoint phenomenology: a phenomenology of having both states at once that subsumes the phenomenology of the individual states:
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This process by which utilities are simultaneously assigned within classes and in total so as to satisfy an additivity property has become known as conjoint measurement.
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These early forays into so-called conjoint therapy were inspired in part by psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan, the one who argued that life is a series of “security operations” to fend off anxiety.
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This is curiously illustrated by what may be termed a conjoint epistle addressed to Professor Janet by Madame B. and her secondary self, Léonie II.
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The majority report recommended the adoption of what is known as the conjoint scheme.
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Listen to the word "conjoint" in the following sentence: Je vous presente mon conjoint.
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Listen to the word "conjoint" in the following sentence: Je vous presente mon conjoint.
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This, dear reader, is my mud-faced conjoint* and that curious behavior of his, in a clamshell, is the difference between him and me; the difference, I now realize, between really living life and poetically lusting after it from the boardwalk above.
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Read on, in today's story column, just after the word for the day: conjoint (kon-zhwan) noun, masculine
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Instead he decided to use the well-known marketing research technique of conjoint analysis, a practice developed at Wharton by marketing professor Paul Green.
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