disjoint
/dɪsˈdʒɔɪnt
/verb [with object]
1Disturb the cohesion or organization of: the loss of the area disjointed military plans...
- The scenes we see are disjointed as the camera rotates, recedes and zooms into a particular edifice or street with alarming rapidity, as if the camera was desperately seeking a trajectory or subject.
- Poor management that fails to recognise and acknowledge them can result in them disjointing the organisation by ignoring important interdependencies.
- A 500-foot length of thirty-six-inch water main was lowered six feet without cracking the big tube or disjointing any one of the forty-five sections that composed it.
2 dated Take apart at the joints: disjoint a six-pound fowl, put in a pot, and simmer until tender...
- The Mule tried to hold himself upright, his torso severed and disjointed by a flabby crack in the mirror, his arms flailing out to either side and trying to latch onto the shoulders of two other stoned zombies who'd risen with him.
- This is a basic method for cutting up and disjointing a whole chicken with the least amount of waste.
adjective Mathematics
(Of two or more sets) having no elements in common.Remember how when comparing two hyperreal numbers we form three disjoint sets: the agreement set, and two order relation sets....
- Divergence scores were averaged over consecutive disjoint sets of 15 genes each to smooth the curves.
- A matching in a graph is a set of disjoint edges (i.e no two sharing an endpoint) connecting pairs of vertices, and a maximum matching is a matching of maximum size.
Origin
Late Middle English (as an adjective in the sense 'disjointed'): from Old French desjoint 'separated', from the verb desjoindre (see disjoin).