inosculation vs conjunction

conjunction vs inosculation

inosculation and conjunction both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
inosculation	Yes	No	No	No
conjunction	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, conjunction is a hypernym of inosculation; that is, conjunction is a word with a broader meaning than inosculation:

inosculation: a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous
conjunction: the state of being joined together

Other hypernyms of inosculation include colligation, conjugation, junction.

inosculation (noun)	conjunction (noun)
a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous	something that joins or connects
	the temporal property of two things happening at the same time
	an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
	(astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac
	the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction
	the state of being joined together

Difference between inosculation and conjunction

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