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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".

  Example: 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).

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

• Connects two equivalent names.

  Example: The country Myanmar, or Burma

noun

• The binary operator inclusive or, true if one at least one of two inputs is true. In infix notation.

noun

• Initialism of Olympic Record.

• Initialism of odorant receptor.

• Initialism of olfactory receptor.

• (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) Initialism of original research.

noun

• A room in a hospital used for performing surgical operations.

noun

• (operations) The application of scientific methods and techniques to problems of decision making, especially in business management and government administration.

noun

• The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.

adjective

• Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.

adverb

• Early (on).

• Earlier, previously.

preposition

• Before; ere. Followed by "ever" or "ere".