disjoint

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16
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19
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8
Pronunciation
/dɪsˈd͡ʒɔɪnt/

Definition of disjoint

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Not smooth or continuous; disjointed.
    “Azure, a chevron disjoint or broken in the head or - BROKMALE. Per fesse gules and sable , a chevron rompu counterchanged - ALLEN, Sheriff of London”
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adj

  1. Not smooth or continuous; disjointed.
    “Azure, a chevron disjoint or broken in the head or - BROKMALE. Per fesse gules and sable , a chevron rompu counterchanged - ALLEN, Sheriff of London”
  2. (not-comparable)Of two or more sets, having no members in common; having an intersection equal to the empty set.

verb

  1. To render disjoint; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection.
    “Near-synonyms: unjoin; disassemble, take apart”
    “to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint poultry by carving”
    “Are there not Poiſons, Racks, and Flames, and Swords; / That Emma thus muſt die by Henry’s Words? / Yet what could Swords or Poiſon, Racks or Flame, / But mangle and disjoint this brittle Frame? / More fatal Henry’s Words; they murder Emma’s Fame.”
    “As over some half-ruined wall, / Disjointed and about to fall, / Fresh woodbines climb and interlace, / And keep the loosened stones in place.”
  2. To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent.
    “a disjointed speech”
  3. (obsolete)To fall into pieces.
    “But let the frame of things dis-ioynt, / Both the Worlds ſuffer, / Ere we will eate our Meale in feare, and ſleepe / In the affliction of theſe terrible Dreames, / That ſhake vs Nightly : Better be with the dead, / Whom we, to gayne our peace, haue ſent to peace, / Then on the torture of the Minde to lye / In reſtleſſe extaſie.”

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Etymology

From Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre (“disjoin”), from Latin disiungō, from dis- + iungō (“join”).

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