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Definition: Disjoint |
DisjointAdjective1. (mathematics) having no elements in common. Verb1. Part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president". 2. Separate at the joints, as of a chicken. 3. Make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of. 4. Become separated, disconnected or disjoint. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "disjoint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: DisjointSynonyms: disarticulate (v), disassociate (v), disjoin (v), dissociate (v), disunite (v), divorce (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: join (v). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The following statements are logically equivalent:
We also say that a set U whose elements are themselves sets is mutually disjoint if its members are mutually disjoint. In symbols:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Disjoint sets."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disjunction | Cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize; dislimb; take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces; tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb; divellicate; skin; disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband; disperse; dislocate, disjoint; break up; mince; comminute; (pulverize); apportion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Disjoint |
| English words defined with "disjoint": Dearticulate, direct sum, disjoin, Disjointing ♦ Injoint ♦ Unjoint. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "disjoint": A.M. ♦ bijection ♦ CRAB MEAT PROCESSOR, crab picker, cutting theorem ♦ disjoint set, disjoint union ♦ equivalence class ♦ set packing ♦ Zermelo set theory. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "disjoint": Disjunct. (references) |
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| "Disjoint" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Disjoint" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 71.43% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "disjoint": disjoint union. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
disjoint | 10 |
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| Language | Translations for "disjoint"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | veçoj (abstract, disentangle, disjoin, dispart, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divide, divorce, individualize, insulate, isolate, keep separate, partition, pick out, seclude, segregate, separate), shqyej (dismember, lacerate, pull, rend, rip, rip out, rip up, tear), shkëput (abstract, detach, disengage, disjoin, dissociate, distract, disunite, extract, rip off, tear, tear off, tear up, uncouple, unfix, unhook, unstrap), ndaj (allot, apportion, at, bar, by, come between, cut, detach, disarticulate, disembody, disjoin, dismember, dispart, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, distribute, disunite, divide, divorce, divvy, fissure, fractionate, grade, hand out, joint, on, part, partition, reconcile, rope off, section, segregate, separate, sever, share, sort out, space, split, sunder, toward, towards, unjoint, unlink, unscramble, unto, winnow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فكك (break up, disassemble, disconnect, disjoin, dismantle, dismember, dissociate, disunite, take apart, take to pieces, tear down), فك (break up, chap, detach, disassemble, disconnect, disengage, disentangle, dismantle, dissociate, disunite, free, jaw, jaws, jowl, loose, loosening, mandible, release, separate, set free, take apart, take to pieces, undo, unfasten, unfix, untangle, untie, untying, unwind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разстройвам (break, crack, defeat, derange, detune, disagree, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, disrupt, distract, disturb, impair, put about, rupture, stultify, unnerve, unstring, unvoice, upset), разчленявам (analyse, analyze, joint), разглобявам (disarticulate, disassemble, dislocate, take down, take smth. apart, take to bits, take to pieces, unjoint), обърквам (abash, addle, baffle, bedevil, befuddle, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, dislocate, distract, embarrass, embroil, flatten, flummox, fluster, foil, fuddle, gravel, jumble, maze, mess about, mess around, mess up, muddle, muff, muss, nonplus, obfuscate, overwhelm, perplex, pose, put off, put out, puzzle, sew up, snarl, stonker, throw out, tumble, vex, wilder), изкълчвам (dislocate, luxate, put out, slip, sprain, wrench). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 弄乱 (Disjointed, Disjointing, Messed, Messing, mess-up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | désintégrer (disintegrate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | disjunkt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κομματιάζω (hack, shred, smash, tear up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | különálló (apart, detached, discrete, dividual, loose, offset, particular, separate, special), ízekre szed (pick to pieces, pull to pieces, to anatomize, to disjoint, to make mincemeat of, to pick to pieces, to pull in pieces, to pull to pieces). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | memisahkan (detach, disrupt, dissociate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | disgregare (break up, disgregate, disintegrate, disrupt), disgiungere (disjoin, separate, sever), disarticolare, smembrare (dismember). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cur ass olt (disarticulate, dislocate, dislocation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | isjointday desmembrar (break down, dismember, divide, separate, share), deslocar (dislocate, displace, edge, fork, luxation, misprint, move, offset, remove, shift, sneak, splay, translocate), desfazer (dash, disincorporate, disobedience, disrupt, dissolve, fade away, limb, ravel out, undo, unlive, unmake, unpack, unpick, untwine, unweave), separar (branch, break, Buddle, calve, cluster of islands, detach, disassemble, disband, disconnected, discriminating, disembogue, disengage, disesteem, disintegrate, dispart, dissever, dissociation, disunity, divide, divvy, insulate, isolated, keep assembly lines rolling, outbreak, part, seclude, segregate, separate, sever, sort, sort out, sunder, uncouple, unleash, unlink, wean). (various references) dezarticula (disarticulate, dislocate), despãrţi (abstract, bar, cleave, detach, disconnect, disjoin, dispart, distinguish, disunite, divide, divorce, partition, scatter, segregate, select, separate, sever, unyoke), demonta (disassemble, discomfit, discountenance, discourage, dismantle, dismount, remove, strip, unrig), separa (chop off, cleave, cut out, detach, disconnect, dismember, dispart, dissociate, disunite, divide, isolate, partition, seclude, segregate, separate, sever, sunder), bucãţi (asunder, divide, Flinders, in pieces, take apart, take to pieces, undo). (various references) расчленять (cut open, disarticulate, dismember, joint), вывихнуть (dislocate, luxate, put out, wrench), непересекающийся. (various references) razdvojiti (bifurcate, come apart, disengage, disjoin, part, push apart, separate, split), razdvojen (disengaged, disjunct), iščašiti (disjoin, dislocate, luxate, sprain, twist, wrench), iščašen (disjointed, twisted). (various references) dividir (break up, come between, cut, cut up, delimit, disperse, divide, divide off, excrete, part, partition, portion, separate, share, sunder), desarticular (break up, disarticulate). (various references) brytas sönder, bryta sönder (break to pieces, fragment, shatter), åtskilja (contradistinguish, dissociate, divide, segregate, separate). (various references) dağıtmak (be on the loose, bestrew, break on, crack up, deal, deal out, decompose, deliver, demount, deploy, diffuse, disband, disject, dismantle, dispel, dispense, disperse, disrupt, dissipate, dissolve, distribute, divert, Dot, drown, fling off, hand out, issue, litter, mete out, pass out, rag, rough up, ruffle, rumple, scatter, strew, tumble), sökmek (cut loose, demount, detach, disassemble, dismantle, dismount, knock down, Ravel, ravel out, read, rip, rip off, slit, spring, take down, tear down, undo, unfix, unpick, unravel, unrig, unstitch), parçalamak (bash in, break into pieces, break up, calve, comminute, crumble, cut smth. asunder, cut up, dash, disintegrate, dismantle, dismember, disrupt, lacerate, pull to pieces, rend, scrap, shatter, shiver, shred, smash, smash in, smash up, Spall, splinter, split, take to pieces, tear to pieces, total), eklem yerinden ayırmak, ek yerlerinden ayırmak. (various references) розрізати (carve, cleave, slash), розбирати (analyse, analyze, decipher, decompose, demount, disassemble, dismantle, dissect, overhaul, spell), розділяти (demarcate, detach, part, partition, set apart, sever, split up, sunder), непересічний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | discerpo. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "disjoint": disjointed, disjointedly, disjointedness, disjointednesses, disjointing, disjoints. (additional references) | |
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"Disjoint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disjouint, dispoint. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "disjoint" (pronounced di'sjoy"nt) |
| 4 | -j oy" n t | joint. |
| 3 | -oy" n t | anoint, appoint, disappoint, point, pointe, reappoint. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-i-j-n-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: disjoin. | |
-2 letters: idiots, iodins, joints. | |
-3 letters: dints, djins, doits, idiot, intis, iodin, joins, joint, joist, nitid, odist, tondi. | |
-4 letters: dins, dint, dits, djin, doit, dons, dost, dots, inti, into, ions, jins, join, jots, nidi, nisi, nits, nodi, nods, snit, snot, tins, tods, tons. | |
-5 letters: din, dis, dit, don, dos, dot, ids, ins, ion, its, jin. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-i-j-n-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: disjoints. | |
+2 letters: disjointed. | |
+3 letters: disjointing, disjunction, jocundities. | |
+4 letters: disjointedly, disjunctions, jurisdiction. | |
+5 letters: adjudications, jurisdictions. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 6A 6F 69 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... .--- --- .. -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01101010 01101111 01101001 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s j o i n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 006A 006F 0069 006E 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3875857681758086 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, الألبانية, الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, 阿"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, 阿拉伯 , arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, arab, arabo, Arabish, arabic, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, 保 利亚, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | kinez, الصينية, لغة الصين, صيني, الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, китайски, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, cinese, Sheenish, Sheenagh, chinês, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | frëngjishte, frëng, franceze, اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , allemand, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, 希腊语, 希臘語 , grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Indonesian | indonezian, الماليزي أحد أبناء ماليزيا, اللغة الأندونيسية, индонезийски език, индонезийски, 印度尼西亞語 , 印度尼西亚语, indonésien, Indonesier, Ινδονήσιος, indonéz, indonesiano, Indoneesagh, indonésio, indonésia, индонезийский, индонезиец, indonezijski, indonežanin, indonesio, endonezya'ya ait, endonezyalı, endonezya dili, endonezya, індонезі"ць, індонезійська мова, індонезійський, індонезійка | |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, Iddaalish, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | gjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, man adası, man dili, менський, менський діалект |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | rumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, 罗马尼亚语, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, Roomainagh, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumano, rumänsk, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | 塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , serbokroatisch, servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, Spaainish, Spaainagh, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | suedez, اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | ukrainisht, ukrainas, أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, الأوكراني, украинец, украински език, 乌克兰, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraino, Ookraanagh, Ookraanish, ucraniano, ucrainean, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukrainare, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, englezesc, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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