disjoint

Meanings

Adjective

• Not smooth or continuous; disjointed.
• Of two or more sets, having no members in common; having an intersection equal to the empty set.

Verb

• To render disjoint; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection.
• To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent.
• To fall into pieces.

Related

Opposite words

• non-disjoint
• overlapping

Origin

• From Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre ("disjoin"), from Latin disiungō, from dis- + iungō.