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Disjoint vs Disconnected - What's the difference?

disjoint | disconnected |

Disconnected is a antonym of disjoint.



As adjectives the difference between disjoint and disconnected

is that disjoint is not smooth or continuous; disjointed while disconnected is that is no longer connected.

As verbs the difference between disjoint and disconnected

is that disjoint is to render disjoint; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection while disconnected is past tense of disconnect.

disjoint

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • not smooth or continuous; disjointed
  • (set theory) (not used in the comparative or superlative ) Of two or more sets, having no members in common; having an intersection equal to the empty set.
  • Antonyms

    * non-disjoint * overlapping

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To render ; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection.
  • to disjoint''' limbs; to '''disjoint''' bones; to '''disjoint poultry by carving
  • * Prior
  • Yet what could swords or poisons, racks or flame, / But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame?
  • * Longfellow
  • Some half-ruined wall / Disjointed and about to fall.
  • To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent.
  • a disjointed speech
  • To fall into pieces.
  • (Shakespeare)

    See also

    * disjoin ----

    disconnected

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (disconnect)
  • The phone company disconnected my DSL.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That is no longer connected.
  • There's no use trying to make a call on the disconnected phone.
  • Feeling a lack of empathy or association with something.
  • I just feel so disconnected from people living on the other side of the world.
  • (mathematics, of a topological space) That can be partitioned into two nonempty subsets which are both open and closed.
  • Antonyms

    * connected

    Derived terms

    * disconnectedly * disconnectedness