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conjuncture

WordNet
  1. (n) conjuncture
    a critical combination of events or circumstances
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Conjuncture
    A crisis produced by a combination of circumstances; complication or combination of events or circumstances; plight resulting from various conditions. "He [Chesterfield] had recently governed Ireland, at a momentous conjuncture , with eminent firmness, wisdom, and humanity."
  2. Conjuncture
    The act of joining, or state of being joined; union; connection; combination. "The conjuncture of philosophy and divinity.", "A fit conjuncture or circumstances."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) conjuncture
    A coming or joining together; the state of being joined; meeting: combination; union; connection; association.
  2. (n) conjuncture
    Combination of circumstances or affairs; especially, a critical state of affairs; a crisis.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Conjuncture
    combination of circumstances: important occasion, crisis
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. F. conjoncture, LL. conjunctura,

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L.,—conjungĕre. See Conjoin.

Usage in the news

In an effort to inspire organizations and individuals to live well, SAMHSA has launched National Wellness Week during the week of September 19th in conjuncture with National Recovery Month. apa.org

Usage in scientific papers

Precise experimental measurements of the transport coefficients of the alkali metals at low temperatures36 support this conjuncture and reveals other physical effects which should be taken into account for a proper quantitative analysis in this temperature region.
Coherent description of electrical and thermal impurity-and-phonon limited transport in simple metals

If f ∈ GA (ω), ω ⊂ Rd then we conjuncture that it admits a global real analytic representative.
Real Analytic Generalized Functions

In they also made a conjuncture about the view of the distribution function of the random evolution in Rn .
Distribution Function of Markovian Random Evolution in Rn

Although, on the basis of this work we are not able to resolve the longstanding and crucial problem of the localization of energy but it adds one more example which may be used to make a conjuncture about the localization of energy at some stage.
Energy-Momentum Distribution of Non-Static Plane Symmetric Spacetimes in GR and TPT

Usage in literature

In such a conjuncture opinions might well differ in respect of the proper means of redress. "Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell" by Hugh Blair Grigsby

There are perhaps conjunctures wherein something of the kind takes place. "Theodicy" by G. W. Leibniz

In such a conjuncture, dear Will, what probability is there of my doing any thing to the purpose? "Andrew Marvell" by Augustine Birrell

In this critical conjuncture, he displayed, as usual, a grievous want of judgment. "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCLXXVI. February, 1847. Vol. LXI." by Various

At that critical Conjuncture, there happen'd to be a Dwarf, who was dumb, but not deaf, in the King's Apartment. "Zadig" by Voltaire

His death, in this conjuncture, was a public misfortune. "The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell" by David Hume

The greatness of the conjuncture, the delightful climate, his sanguine temperament, combined, however, to sustain him. "Tancred" by Benjamin Disraeli

But Mrs Mackenzie was by no means so proud at the present conjuncture of affairs. "Miss Mackenzie" by Anthony Trollope

The economic conjuncture varies. "Folkways" by William Graham Sumner

There was a time when you shared them, but there are circumstances and conjunctures, alas! "Robert Elsmere" by Mrs. Humphry Ward