disjunct

From dis- +‎ Latin junctus (“joined”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈdʒʌŋkt/, /dɪsˈdʒʊŋkt/
• Rhymes: -ʌŋkt, -ʊŋkt

disjunct (comparative more disjunct, superlative most disjunct)

1. Separate; discontinuous; not connected.

   Synonym: disjunctive

   Antonyms: conjunct, conjunctive

2. (botany) Occurring in widely separated geographic areas.

disjunct (plural disjuncts)

2. The state of being disjointed; disjointedness; a disconnect.
   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 1:

     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.

3. (botany) A species or population occurring at a distant or separate location, and separated from other members of the same group.
   • 1966 October, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume I, New York, N.Y.; London: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 4:

     […] 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 […]

4. (logic) One of multiple propositions, any of which, if true, confirm the validity of another proposition (a disjunction).

   Holonym: disjunction

6. (linguistics) Any sentence element that is not fully integrated into the clausal structure of the sentence.
   2. (linguistics) 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.

      Synonym: sentence adverb

7. (linguistics, rare) A conjunct of a disjunctive conjunction.

   Near-synonym: conjunct

   • 2019, Roberto Zamparelli, “Coordination”, in De Gruyter, Mouton‎^[1], pages 135-170:

     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).

• "Disjunction" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Borrowed from French disjoint.

disjunct m or n (feminine singular disjunctă, masculine plural disjuncți, feminine and neuter plural disjuncte)

1. disjunctive