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noun
- (grammar) Speech or writing in which clauses or phrases are placed together without being separated by conjunctions, for example "I came; I saw; I conquered".
- (politics) In Greek political system: coalition, "partisan camp"
Etymology: Greek: (placement side by side), in antiquity referred to frontal aligned arrangment of battle formations
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