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:
The Unity of Consciousness Brook, Andrew 2006
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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.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas KENNETH J. ARROW 1968
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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.
THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB LAURIE ABRAHAM 2010
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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.
Real Ghost Stories William T. Stead
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The majority report recommended the adoption of what is known as the conjoint scheme.
Science & Education Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Listen to the word "conjoint" in the following sentence: Je vous presente mon conjoint.
Jean-Marc 2009
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Listen to the word "conjoint" in the following sentence: Je vous presente mon conjoint.
Jean-Marc 2009
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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.
Jean-Marc 2009
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Read on, in today's story column, just after the word for the day: conjoint (kon-zhwan) noun, masculine
Jean-Marc 2009
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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.
When Lower Prices Equal Higher Profits Knowledge@Wharton 2010
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