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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
disjoint en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /dɪsˈd͡ʒɔɪnt/
Etymology
From Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre (“disjoin”), from Latin disiungō, from dis- + iungō (“join”).
Meanings
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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
1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 109:
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(not-comparable) Of two or more sets, having no members in common; having an intersection equal to the empty set.
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(not-comparable) Of two or more elements in a lattice, having a meet equal to the bottom element.
Forms
Antonyms
overlapping · non-disjoint
Deriveds
pairwise disjoint · disjoint union · disjoint union topology · disjointure · disjointness · disjointly · disjoint set · nondisjoint
Relateds
disjunct · conjoint
Translations (13)
pt disjunto (having no members in common) · ro disjunct (having no members in common) · de disjunkt (having no members in common) · is sundurlægur (having no members in common) · ru непересека́ющийся (having no members in common) · es disjunto (disjointed) · fi erillinen (having no members in common) · is óskaraður (having no members in common) · hu diszjunkt (having no members in common) · cmn 不相交的 (having no members in common) · ko 서로소 (having no members in common) · cs disjunktní (having no members in common) · tl diugnay (having no members in common)
disjoint en · VERB
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /dɪsˈd͡ʒɔɪnt/
Etymology
From Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre (“disjoin”), from Latin disiungō, from dis- + iungō (“join”).
Meanings
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To render disjoint; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection.
Near-synonyms: unjoin; disassemble, take apart
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.
1719, Matthew Prior, “Henry and Emma”, in Poems on Several Occasions, Dublin: J. Hyde, page 163:As over some half-ruined wall, / Disjointed and about to fall, / Fresh woodbines climb and interlace, / And keep the loosened stones in place.
1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, in The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, London: George Routledge and Sons, published 1872, page 543:to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint poultry by carving
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To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent.
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(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.
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:
Forms
Antonyms
rejoint · rearticulate
Relateds
unjointed · disjoin
Synonyms
unjoin · disarticulate · take apart · disassemble
Translations (9)
de zertrennen (To render disjoint) · pt desconjuntar (To render disjoint) · fi erottaa (To render disjoint) · ru разъединя́ть (To render disjoint) · ko 해체하다 (To render disjoint) · bg разглобявам (To render disjoint) · fi irrottaa (To render disjoint) · ru разъедини́ть (To render disjoint) · ro disjunge (To render disjoint)