Usually means: Break in sentence, logical flow.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word anacoluthon:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. anacoluthon: Merriam-Webster
  2. anacoluthon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anacoluthon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anacoluthon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. anacoluthon: Vocabulary.com
  6. anacoluthon: Wordnik
  7. anacoluthon: Wiktionary
  8. anacoluthon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. anacoluthon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. anacoluthon: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Anacoluthon, anacoluthon: Dictionary.com
  12. anacoluthon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Anacoluthon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Anacoluthon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. anacoluthon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. anacoluthon: Rhymezone
  17. Anacoluthon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. anacoluthon: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. anacoluthon: FreeDictionary.org
  20. anacoluthon: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. anacoluthon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. anacoluthon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. anacoluthon: Merriam-Webster

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  3. Anacoluthon: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anacoluthon: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anacoluthon: A Word A Day

(Note: See anacolutha as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (anacoluthon)

noun:  (grammar) A sentence or clause that is grammatically inconsistent, especially with respect to the type of clausal or phrasal complement for the initial clause.
noun:  (rhetoric) Intentional use of such a structure.

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