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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

  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 1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 109:
  2. (not-comparable) Of two or more sets, having no members in common; having an intersection equal to the empty set.
  3. (not-comparable) Of two or more elements in a lattice, having a meet equal to the bottom element.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most disjoint Degree=Sup lexicographic
more disjoint Degree=Cmp lexicographic

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

  1. 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
  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. 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

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
disjointed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
disjointed Tense=Past lexicographic
disjoints Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
disjointing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

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)