Vocabulary Entry

disjoint

|adjective • verb • noun

adjective

Not sharing a common boundary; separate.

Example Sentences

"The two neighborhoods are disjoint."

"His interests are disjoint from mine."

"They maintain disjoint lives with little overlap."

verb

Example Sentences

"The engineer needs to disjoint the components to fix the machine."

"In mathematics, we often disjoint sets to simplify calculations."

"The network specialist will disjoint the servers during maintenance."

noun

Example Sentences

"In set theory, disjoints refer to sets with no elements in common."

"The professor explained the concept of disjoints in his lecture."

"There are several disjoints in the data that need to be analyzed."