Jhumpa Lahiri

I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.

American Author

Will Self

To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.

English Author

Use 'disjunction' to highlight a strong contrast between ideas, events, or actions.

Contrasting Situations

Emphasize the lack of real or logical connection between things with 'disjunction'.

No Real Connection

'Disjunction' refers to options in philosophy or logic, where any can be true.

Logical Possibilities

In logic, 'disjunction' is usually inclusive, meaning 'and/or' not just 'either/or'.

Inclusive 'Or'

'Disjunction' in math involves sets of possibilities where one must be correct.

Mathematical Sets

Use 'disjunction' to talk about events in probability that can happen together or alone.

Probability Events

'Disjunction' in genetics is about chromosomes parting during cell division.

Chromosome Separation

Remember, genetic 'disjunction' specifically happens in the meiosis phase of cell division.

Occurs in Meiosis

'Disjunction' in language expresses a choice between words or phrases.

Alternatives in Language

'Disjunction' is used to present clear alternatives or choices in speech and writing.

Either/Or Choices

 They are represented by high and low voltages. Equations are implemented via logic gate circuits that produce an output of one or zero based on whether the inputs satisfy a certain logical statement. These circuits perform three fundamental logical operations, conjunction, disjunction, and negation.

How transistors work -...

 That's the heroic part of their story. There's a flip side as well. They did not foresee at least one consequence of their revolution. They would have been deeply dismayed by today's disjunction between science and the rest of culture.

Disjunction

Contrasting Situations

No Real Connection

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