disjuncture

[dis-juhngk-cher]

dis·junc·ture

[dis-juhngk-cher]
noun
the act of disjoining or the state of being disjoined; disjunction.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English (< Anglo-French ) < Medieval Latin disjunctūra, equivalent to Latin disjunct(us) (see disjunct) + -ūra -ure
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Disjuncture is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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disjuncture

noun
state of being disconnected [syn: disjunction] [ant: connectedness
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