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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