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Dividing vs Disjunctive - What's the difference?

dividing | disjunctive |

As adjectives the difference between dividing and disjunctive

is that dividing is serving to divide or separate while disjunctive is not connected; separated.

As nouns the difference between dividing and disjunctive

is that dividing is an act of division while disjunctive is (logic) a disjunction.

As a verb dividing

is .

dividing

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Serving to divide or separate.
    • We installed a dividing wall in order to create two rooms out of one.

    Verb

    (head)
    • Dividing seven dollars among three people is difficult!

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of division.
  • * 1840 , Albert Barnes, Notes: Critical, Explanatory, and Practical on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah
    • Hence the noun also means dividing'', or portion as that which is ''divided — whether an inheritance, or whether the dividings of spoil after battle.

    disjunctive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not connected; separated.
  • (grammar, of a personal pronoun) Not used in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject. For example:
    • English: me, him, them
    French: moi, toi
    Irish:
  • Tending to disjoin; separating.
  • (music) Relating to disjunct tetrachords.
  • * Moore (Encyc. of Music)
    • Disjunctive notes.

    Antonyms

    * conjunctive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (logic) A disjunction.
  • * L. H. Atwater
    • Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals.
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