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adjective
1.
having the joints or connections separated: a disjointed fowl.
2.
disconnected; incoherent: a disjointed discourse.
3.
Entomology. disjunct (def. 3).
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Disjointed
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verb (used with object)
1.
to separate or disconnect the joints or joinings of.
2.
to put out of order; derange.
verb (used without object)
3.
to come apart.
4.
to be dislocated; be out of joint.
adjective
5.
Mathematics.
a.
(of two sets) having no common elements.
b.
(of a system of sets) having the property that every pair of sets is disjoint.
6.
Obsolete. disjointed; out of joint.
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English disjointen to destroy < Anglo-French, Old French desjoint, past participle of desjoindre to disjoin
1400–50; late Middle English disjointen to destroy < Anglo-French, Old French desjoint, past participle of desjoindre to disjoin
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Word Origin & History
disjointed
c.1643, from disjoint (n.) "a dilemma, distress" (late 14c.), probably influenced by lit. sense in O.Fr. desjointe "separation, rupture."
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