verb
- to separate at the joints; to take apart
- to disturb the orderly structure or arrangement of something
adjective
- having no elements in common; separate or distinct
Usage: mathematics
Examples
- The butcher will disjoint the chicken before packaging it.
- The earthquake disjointed the old stone wall.
- The accident disjointed his shoulder badly.
- War can disjoint families and communities.
- The two sets are completely disjoint.
- These disjoint events have no relationship to each other.
- The professor explained disjoint sets in mathematics class.