σύζευξις

English (LSJ)

εως, ἡ,

   A a being yoked together, esp. of wedded union, Pl.Lg.930b, Arist.Pol.1253b10, 1335a10.    2 of things, close union, combination, Hp.Art.14, Pl.R.508a, Thphr.Sens.73; ὁ τῆς σ. τῆς τούτων ἀριθμός the number of their combinations, Arist.Pol.1290b32; τοσαῦτ' εἴδη . . ὅσαιπερ αἱ σ. τῶν μορίων ib.36; αἱ μέχρι πλείονος τῶν ἄρθρων σ. the confinement of the joints in swaddling clothes, Sor.1.84.    b κατὰ σύζευξιν, of an army marching in parallel columns, Ascl.Tact.11.2.