| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Present participle | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb disjoint.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (disjoint) | 1. Part; cease or break association with.[Wordnet]. 2. Separate at the joints; "disjoint the chicken before cooking it".[Wordnet]. 3. Make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of.[Wordnet]. 4. Become separated, disconnected or disjoint.[Wordnet]. 5. To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving.[Websters]. 6. To separate at junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint and edifice.[Websters]. 7. To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; as, a disjointed speech.[Websters]. 8. To fall in pieces.[Websters]. 9. Base verb from the following inflections: disjointing, disjointed, disjoints, disjointer, disjointers, disjointingly and disjointedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DISJOINTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DISJOINTING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Separating joints; disjoining limb from limb; breaking at the seams or junctures; rendering incoherent.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of disjoint. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: disjoint
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Almost disjoint sets | In mathematics, two sets are almost disjoint if their intersection is small in some sense. Different definitions of "small" will therefore result in different definitions of "almost disjoint". (references) | ||
| Disjoint union | In set theory, a disjoint union (or discriminated union) is a union of a collection of sets whose members are pairwise disjoint. (references) | ||
| Disjoint union (topology) | In topology and related areas of mathematics, the disjoint union (also called the direct sum, free union, or coproduct) of a family of topological spaces is a space formed by equipping the disjoint union of the underlying sets with a natural topology called the disjoint union topology. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: disjoint
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Disjoint set | Math | A set whose members do not overlap, are not duplicated, etc. (references) | |
| Disjoint union | Computing | Disjoint union In domain theory, a union (or sum) which results in a domain without a least element. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.. | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: disjoint | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Disjoint | 18 | Almost disjoint sets | 6 | |
| Disjoint union | 12 | Disjoint | 18 | |
| Disjoint union (topology) | 7 | Disjoint sets | 4 | |
| Almost disjoint sets | 6 | Disjoint union | 12 | |
| Disjoint sets | 4 | Disjoint union (topology) | 7 | |
| Edge disjoint shortest pair algorithm | 3 | Edge disjoint shortest pair algorithm | 3 | |
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