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2. Conjunction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   The definition may be extended to idiomatic phrases that behave as a unit and perform the same function, e.g. "as well as", "provided that". A simple literary example of a conjunction is "the truth of nature, and the power of giving interest" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Biographia Literaria). [3]

3. Hilbert's third problem - Wikipedia

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   The third of Hilbert's list of mathematical problems, presented in 1900, was the first to be solved. The problem is related to the following question: given any two polyhedra of equal volume , is it always possible to cut the first into finitely many polyhedral pieces which can be reassembled to yield the second?

4. Conjunct - Wikipedia

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   Third, we have to call your dentist and make an appointment. Additive (indicating that the content of the sentence is in addition to the preceding one) He has no money. In addition, he has no means of getting any. Summative (summing up, or concluding, on the preceding sentence(s)) A is B. A is C. To sum up, A is several things.

5. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   conjunctions of condition: such as if, unless, only if, whether or not, even if, in case (that); the conjunction that , which produces content clauses , as well as words that produce interrogative content clauses: whether , where , when , how , etc.

6. Logical conjunction - Wikipedia

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   An operand of a conjunction is a conjunct. [3] Beyond logic, the term "conjunction" also refers to similar concepts in other fields: In natural language, the denotation of expressions such as English "and"; In programming languages, the short-circuit and control structure; In set theory, intersection.

7. Logical connective - Wikipedia

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   Both conjunction and disjunction are associative, commutative and idempotent in classical logic, most varieties of many-valued logic and intuitionistic logic. The same is true about distributivity of conjunction over disjunction and disjunction over conjunction, as well as for the absorption law.

8. English prepositions - Wikipedia

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   It refers to a restricted subset of what are classified as subordinating conjunctions in traditional grammar. There are only a very few complementizers: that, whether, and if are the main examples. [1] Traditional grammar includes words like because, while, and unless in the class of subordinating conjunctions.

9. Order of operations - Wikipedia

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   [2] [3] Thus, in the expression 1 + 2 × 3, the multiplication is performed before addition, and the expression has the value 1 + (2 × 3) = 7, and not (1 + 2) × 3 = 9. When exponents were introduced in the 16th and 17th centuries, they were given precedence over both addition and multiplication and placed as a superscript to the right of ...