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Conjunction
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Used to connect words of the same part of speech, clauses, or sentences that are to be taken jointly,
  1. Used to connect words of the same part of speech, clauses, or sentences that are to be taken jointly
    • - bread and butter
    • - red and black tiles
    • - they can read and write
    • - a hundred and fifty
  2. Used to connect two clauses when the second happens after the first
    • - he turned around and walked out
    • - she washed and dried her hair
  3. Used to connect two clauses, the second of which results from the first
    • - do that once more, and I'll skin you alive
  4. Connecting two identical comparatives, to emphasize a progressive change
    • - getting better and better
    • - he felt more and more like an outsider
  5. Connecting two identical words, implying great duration or great extent
    • - I cried and cried
    • - it takes hours and hours
  6. Used to connect two identical words to indicate that things of the same name or class have different qualities
    • - all human conduct is determined or caused—but there are causes and causes
  7. Used to connect two numbers to indicate that they are being added together
    • - six and four make ten
  8. Used to connect two numbers, implying succession
    • - a line of men marching two and two
  9. Used to introduce an additional comment or interjection
    • - if it came to a choice—and this was the worst thing—she would turn her back on her parents
    • - they believe they are descended from him, and quite right, too
  10. Used to introduce a question in connection with what someone else has just said
    • - “I found the letter in her bag.” “And did you steam it open?”
  11. (esp. in broadcasting) Used to introduce a statement about a new topic
    • - and now to the dessert
  12. Used after some verbs and before another verb to indicate intention, instead of “to”
    • - I would try and do what he said
    • - come and see me
Noun
  1. A Boolean operator that gives the value one if and only if all the operands are one and otherwise has a value of zero

  2. A circuit that produces an output signal only when signals are received simultaneously through all input connections

  1. In logic and mathematics, logical conjunction, or: and is a two-place logical connective that has the value true if both of its operands are true, otherwise a value of false.
  2. 49 Andromedae is a star in the constellation Andromeda. Its apparent magnitude is 5.27.
  3. Used to connect two homogeneous (similar) words or phrases; Used at the end of a list to indicate the last item; Used to join sentences or sentence fragments in chronological order; Used to indicate causation; To; used to connect two finite verbs; Used to ask for elaboration; Used to indicate ...
  4. for The North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial (NASCET) Group
  5. MATERIAL CONNECTION DISCLOSURE
  6. is a conjunction used between nouns in a list: A blanket and picnic basket are needed for the afternoon.
  7. (operator): Boolean operator, using this operator to combine terms determines that all combined terms must appear.
  8. dance. 1969 (CBC-TV Toronto 1969). Sop, mezzo, tenor, bar, dancers, chamber ensemble. Ms
  9. a Boolean operator used when conducting a search using multiple search-terms; used when you wants to find articles that contain both terms on either side of the AND.
  10. ac; and; ond; eac; ge
  11. Narrows the search. "North Carolina and Geography" will find items about the geography of North Carolina. The computer will search for documents that have BOTH of those keywords.
  12. A Boolean operator that narrows a search by requiring all search terms be present in the results retrieved because of the search. For example, hot and cold would only retrieve information where both "hot" and "cold" appear. See also operators.
  13. Ångstrom, a unit of length equal to 10^-8 cm. X-ray wavelengths geneally range from O(1) to O(100) Å. The equivalent unit of photon energy is [keV], where 1 eV = 1.609 10^-12 ergs, and [Å]=12.3985/[keV].
  14. logical or boolean operator that creates the intersection set
  15. If you use AND between terms, you will only retrieve documents that contain each of the terms specified. For example, the search
  16. Indicates that both requirements need to be fulfilled
  17. (as in “Can we get an ‘and’ credit for his billing?”) Not just a popular conjunction, the ‘and’ credit refers to an actor’s billing onscreen, and is usually placed with the final actor in the top billing. Have you ever seen film credits list the top actors and then say “…and Robert DeNiro”? ...
  18. Pop-ups generally refer to banner ads that are not embedded within a page but as the name suggests pop up on the viewers screen when a page has been loaded. ...
  19. The Third Grand Division in the creation, comprising of Trikuti and Sahansdal Kanwal, where subtle matter in the form of emotions and thoughts predominates and the spirit cannot but make use of them; a materio-spiritual region.
  20. do not rely heavily on the loose connectives and, and so, and and then. They produce flabby sentences which force readers to guess the relation between clauses:
  21. Conjunction: Then. Used to begin a sentence.
  22. to thinking people studying how whale and dolphin scientists do not think or communicate.
  23. are used in SGML (and its applications and variants such as HTML and XML), to enclose code tags: <div>, and in the languages Java, C++ and C# to delimit generic arguments and preprocessor directives. They are also used as operators for redirection in Unix' and other operating systems' shells. ...
  24. to restrict a search, eg negligence AND medical; this is generally not a useful search in a long document.
  25. a flash memory architecture that uses Fowler Nordheim tunneling to achieve low power programming.