• IPA: /dɪsˈdʒɔɪnt/

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.

• non-disjoint
• overlapping

• disjunct
• conjoint

• German: disjunkt
• Portuguese: disjunto

disjoint (disjoints, present participle disjointing; past and past participle disjointed)

1. To render disjoint#Adjective|disjoint; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection.

   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, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [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.

• German: zertrennen