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disjoint

/dɪsˈdʒɔɪnt/
verb
  1. To separate or disconnect the parts of something, especially at the joints.
    • The butcher disjointed the chicken before cooking it.
    • He carefully disjointed the model airplane to pack it in a smaller box.
    • The impact of the crash disjointed the robot's arm from its body.
Synonyms
separatedisconnect
Antonyms
joinconnect
adjective
  1. In mathematics, describing sets that have no elements in common.
    • The two circles in the Venn diagram are disjoint; they share no area.
    • The events of rolling an odd number and rolling an even number are disjoint.
    • In set theory, disjoint sets have an empty intersection.
Antonyms
intersectoverlap
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