disjunctions

Noun

disjunction (countable and uncountable, plural disjunctions)

1. The act of disjoining; disunion, separation.
2. The state of being disjoined, contrasting, or opposing.
   • the disjunction expressed by disjunctive conjunctions, such as but or or
3. The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the or operator.
4. A logical operator that results in “true” when any of its operands are true.
5. During meiosis, the separation of chromosomes (homologous in meiosis I, and sister chromatids in meiosis II).