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Disjunct
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- 1 Separate; discontinuous; not connected.
- 2 Occurring in widely separated geographic areas.
- 1 progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second wordnet
- 2 used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations wordnet
- 3 marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements wordnet
- 4 having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects wordnet
- 1 The state of being disjointed; disjointedness; a disconnect.
"Knowing for ourselves that a large disjunct existed between what could be read at NIE and what could be heard, we set about devising a way to measure what we were familiar with hearing."
- 2 A species or population occurring at a distant or separate location, and separated from other members of the same group.
"[…] a continental northern Alaskan element, including a series of endemic species and disjuncts that have survived the Pleistocene glaciation in northern Alaska and thus represent relicts of the much warmer Tertiary […]"
- 3 One of multiple propositions, any of which, if true, confirm the validity of another proposition (a disjunction).
"Holonym: disjunction"
- 4 Any sentence element that is not fully integrated into the clausal structure of the sentence.
- 5 Any sentence element that is not fully integrated into the clausal structure of the sentence.; An adverbial that expresses the speaker's or writer's attitude towards, or descriptive statement of, the propositional content of the associated clause or sentence.
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- 6 A conjunct of a disjunctive conjunction. rare
"In English, linking elements are the conjunction and, the disjunction or and the adversative linker but, collectively called COORDINATORS. The units that are coordinated will be called COORDINANDS in this article (CONJUNCTS, when linked by conjunction, DISJUNCTS, when linked by the disjunctive connector)."
Etymology
From dis- + Latin junctus (“joined”).
From dis- + Latin junctus (“joined”).
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