{
  "id": "conjunction.grammar",
  "term": "conjunction",
  "sense": "grammar",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "communication",
  "domain": "language",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a term that joins two thing together",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "terms.language",
      "join.connection"
    ],
    "interaction": "The term that joins two thing together forms a conjunction.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "linking function",
      "combined meaning"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The word 'and' links 'bread' and 'butter' in the phrase 'bread and butter' across English speech.",
      "domain": "language"
    },
    {
      "text": "In the 1997 Mars Pathfinder mission, the conjunction 'but' contrasted expected and actual terrain hardness in command logic.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Magna Carta linked barons' rights and the king's duties using 'and' in Clause 12, drafted at Runnymede in 1215.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "terms.language",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a conjunction is a type of term"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "conjunction",
    "conjunctions"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-conjunction.grammar"
}