Disjunct

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disjunct \Dis*junct"\ (d[i^]s*j[u^][ng]kt"), a. [L. disjunctus,
     p. p. of disjungere to disjoin. See {Disjoin}, and cf.
     {Disjoint}.]
     1. Disjoined; separated. [R.]
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     2. (Zool.) Having the head, thorax, and abdomen separated by
        a deep constriction.
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     {Disjunct tetrachords} (Mus.), tetrachords so disposed to
        each other that the gravest note of the upper is one note
        higher than the acutest note of the other.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  disjunct
       adj 1: progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major
              second [ant: {conjunct}]
       2: having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and
          abdomen, as in insects
       3: marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements;
          "little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and
          unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"-
          Scientific Monthly [syn: {isolated}]
       4: used of distributions, as of statistical or natural
          populations; "disjunct distribution of king crabs"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "disjunct":
     aimless, alien, alienated, amorphous, apart, capricious, casual,
     desultory, detached, disarticulated, disconnected, discontinuous,
     discrete, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, dislocated,
     disordered, dispersed, disproportionate, disrelated, dissociated,
     disunited, divided, divorced, erratic, estranged, exotic,
     extraneous, fitful, foreign, formless, frivolous, gratuitous,
     haphazard, hit-or-miss, immethodical, inchoate, incoherent,
     incommensurable, incomparable, independent, indiscriminate,
     insular, irregular, irrelative, isolated, meaningless, misshapen,
     nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, orderless, other,
     outlandish, planless, promiscuous, random, removed, scattered,
     segregate, segregated, senseless, separate, separated, sequestered,
     shapeless, shut off, spasmodic, sporadic, straggling, straggly,
     strange, systemless, unaffiliated, unallied, unarranged,
     unassociated, unclassified, unconnected, undirected, ungraded,
     unjoined, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unrelatable,
     unrelated, unsorted, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vague,
     wandering