DISJOINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disjoint mean? 

• DISJOINT (adjective)
  The adjective DISJOINT has 1 sense:

1. having no elements in common

  Familiarity information: DISJOINT used as an adjective is very rare.

• DISJOINT (verb)
  The verb DISJOINT has 4 senses:

1. part; cease or break association with

2. separate at the joints

3. make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of

4. become separated, disconnected or disjoint

  Familiarity information: DISJOINT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISJOINT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having no elements in common

Similar:

separate (independent; not united or joint)

Domain category:

math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)

• DISJOINT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disjoint    ... he / she / it disjoints   
Past simple: disjointed   
Past participle: disjointed   
-ing form: disjointing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Part; cease or break association with

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

disassociate; disjoint; dissociate; disunite; divorce

Context example:

She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president

Hypernyms (to "disjoint" is one way to...):

break; break up; part; separate; split; split up (discontinue an association or relation; go different ways)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Separate at the joints

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

disarticulate; disjoint

Context example:

disjoint the chicken before cooking it

Hypernyms (to "disjoint" is one way to...):

disunite; divide; part; separate (force, take, or pull apart)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

disjoin; disjoint

Hypernyms (to "disjoint" is one way to...):

disunite; divide; part; separate (force, take, or pull apart)

Cause:

disjoin; disjoint (become separated, disconnected or disjoint)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Sense 4

Meaning:

Become separated, disconnected or disjoint

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

disjoin; disjoint

Hypernyms (to "disjoint" is one way to...):

divide; part; separate (come apart)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

The type of thing (disjoint set) represented in the NCI Thesaurus.

(NCI Thesaurus Kind, NCI Thesaurus)

By definition, kinds are all pairwise disjoint from one another.

(Kind, NCI Thesaurus)

She now plainly saw that she must not expect a manuscript of equal length with the generality of what she had shuddered over in books, for the roll, seeming to consist entirely of small disjointed sheets, was altogether but of trifling size, and much less than she had supposed it to be at first.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)