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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (4)

1. progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second;

2. having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects;

3. marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements;
- Example: "little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"- Scientific Monthly
[syn: disjunct, isolated]

4. used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations;
- Example: "disjunct distribution of king crabs"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.] [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) Having the head, thorax, and abdomen separated by a deep constriction. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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: disjunct, isolated] 4: used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations; "disjunct distribution of king crabs"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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