English-Thai Dictionary
conjuncture
N เหตุการณ์ ที่ สำคัญ crisis hed-kan-ti-sam-kan
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
CONJUNCTURE
n.[See Conjoin. ] 1. A joining; a combination or union, as of causes, events or circumstances; as an unhappy conjuncture of affairs.
2. An occasion; a critical time, proceeding from a union of circumstances. Juncture is used in a like sense.
At that conjuncture, peace was very desirable.
3. Union; connection; mode of union; as the conjunctures of letters in words.
4. Connection; union; consistency.
I was willing to grant to presbytery what with reason it can pretend to in a conjuncture with episcopacy.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
CONJUNCTURE
Con *junc "ture, n. Etym: [Cf. F. conjoncture, LL. conjunctura.]
1. The act of joining, or state of being joined; union; connection; combination. The conjuncture of philosophy and divinity. Hobbes. A fit conjuncture or circumstances. Addison.
2. 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. Macaulay.
New American Oxford Dictionary
conjuncture
con junc ture |kənˈjəNGkCHər kənˈʤəŋ (k )tʃər | ▶noun a combination of events: the peculiar political conjunctures that led to war. • a state of affairs: the wider political conjuncture. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from conjunction, by substitution of the suffix; influenced by obsolete French conjuncture, from Italian congiuntura, based on Latin conjungere ‘join together ’ (see conjoin ).
Oxford Dictionary
conjuncture
con |junc ¦ture |kənˈdʒʌŋ (k )tʃə | ▶noun a combination of events: the happy conjuncture of two facts. • a state of affairs: the wider political conjuncture. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from conjunction, by substitution of the suffix; influenced by obsolete French conjuncture, from Italian congiuntura, based on Latin conjungere ‘join together ’ (see conjoin ).
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
conjuncture
con junc ture /kəndʒʌ́ŋ (k )tʃə r /名詞 C ｟かたく ｠からみ合い, 結合 ; (重大な )局面, 危機 .
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