disjoint
Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA: /dɪsˈd͡ʒɔɪnt/
Adjective

disjoint

  1. Not smooth or continuous; disjointed.
  2. (set theory, not comparable) Of two or more sets, having no members in common; having an intersection equal to the empty set.
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disjoint (disjoints, present participle disjointing; simple past and past participle disjointed)

  1. To render disjoint; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection.
    Synonyms: disarticulate#Verb
    Antonyms: rejoint#Verb, rearticulate#Verb
    Near-synonyms: unjoin; disassemble, take apart
    to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint poultry by carving
  2. To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent.
    a disjointed speech
  3. (obsolete) To fall into pieces.
    • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene ii], page 140 ↗, column 2:
      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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