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How to pronounce adjunction in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms junction
Type of connection, connexion, joining
Derivation adjoin

Examples of adjunction

adjunction
A derivation starts with an initial tree, combining via either substitution or adjunction.
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Adjunction inserts an auxiliary tree into the center of another tree.
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A few very simple rewrite rules suffice to generate the vocabulary of strings for adjunction rules.
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  • Junction: an act of joining or adjoining things
  • (adjunctive) joining; forming an adjunct
  • In mathematics, adjoint functors are pairs of functors which stand in a particular relationship with one another, called an adjunction. The relationship of adjunction is ubiquitous in mathematics, as it rigorously reflects the intuitive notions of optimization and efficiency. ...
  • In abstract algebra, adjunction is a construction in field theory, where for a given field extension E/F, subextensions between E and F are constructed.
  • A form of similarity between a pair of categories and which is weaker than equivalence, which in turn is weaker than isomorphism. ...
  • (adjunctive) a connector joining two components of the same weight, such as a coordinating conjunction; a substance added as a supplement; often in the phrase "additives and adjunctives. ...
  • (adjunctive) A secondary treatment in addition to the primary therapy.
  • When a verb is placed at the beginning or the end of a sentence instead of in the middle. For example (from Rhetorica ad Herennium), "At the beginning, as follows: 'Fades physical beauty with disease or age.' At the end, as follows: 'Either with disease or age physical beauty fades.'"
  • This is a process by which one constituent is adjoined (= attached) to another to form a larger constituent of the same type. ...