disjoint

Etymology

From Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre (“disjoin”), from Latin disiungō, from dis- + iungō (“join”).

adj

1. Not smooth or continuous; disjointed.
   Azure, a chevron disjoint or broken in the head or - BROKMALE. Per fesse gules and sable , a chevron rompu counterchanged - ALLEN, Sheriff of London 1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 109
2. (set theory, not comparable) Of two or more sets, having no members in common; having an intersection equal to the empty set.

verb

1. To render disjoint; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection.
   to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint poultry by carving
   Are there not Poiſons, Racks, and Flames, and Swords; / That Emma thus muſt die by Henry’s Words? / Yet what could Swords or Poiſon, Racks or Flame, / But mangle and disjoint this brittle Frame? / More fatal Henry’s Words; they murder Emma’s Fame. 1719, Matthew Prior, “Henry and Emma”, in Poems on Several Occasions, Dublin: J. Hyde, page 163
   As over some half-ruined wall, / Disjointed and about to fall, / Fresh woodbines climb and interlace, / And keep the loosened stones in place. 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, in The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, London: George Routledge and Sons, published 1872, page 543
2. To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent.
   a disjointed speech
3. (obsolete) To fall into pieces.