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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another;
[syn: anacoluthia, anacoluthon]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Anacoluthon \An`a*co*lu"thon\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, not following, wanting sequence; 'an priv. + ? following.] (Gram.) A lack of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part. Syn: anacoluthia [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

anacoluthon n 1: an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another [syn: anacoluthia, anacoluthon]