disjoint meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

disjoint

adj

/dɪsˈd͡ʒɔɪnt/

Etymology From Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre (“disjoin”), from Latin disiungō, from dis- + iungō (“join”).

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 London1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 109:

Mathematics, Sciences, Set theory Of two or more sets, having no members in common; having an intersection equal to the empty set.

Algebra, Mathematics, Sciences Of two or more elements in a lattice, having a meet equal to the bottom element.

Antonyms: non-disjoint, overlapping
Derived terms: disjointly, disjointness, disjoint set, disjoint union, disjoint union topology, disjointure, nondisjoint, pairwise disjoint
Related terms: disjunct, conjoint

verb

Etymology From Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre (“disjoin”), from Latin disiungō, from dis- + iungō (“join”).

To render disjoint; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection.

2 more examples

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 break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent.

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: