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.

To separate at junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint an edifice.

To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; as, a disjointed speech.

Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint.

Difficult situation; dilemma; strait.

To fall in pieces.

A geometric relationship where two objects do not interact in any way. Two disjoint objects do not share any element or piece of their geometry.

See mutually exclusive

Two sets are disjoint if they have no element in common.

(of types) having no elements in common.

(of types): Informally, two types are disjoint if there can be no object that is an instance of both types. A formal definition is given in Type Disjointness on page 51.