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/ɔː(ɹ)/
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conjunction

  • Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either [...] or".

    "He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what."

  • An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
  • Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
  • Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).

    "It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!"

  • Connects two equivalent names.

    "The country Myanmar, or Burma"

Synonyms:and/or

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