disjoint

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To put out of joint; dislocate.
2. v. To take apart at the joints.
3. v. To destroy the coherence or connections of.
4. v. To separate; disjoin.
5. v. To come apart at the joints.
6. v. To become dislocated.
7. adj. Mathematics Having no elements in common. Used of sets.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To separate or disconnect the joints or joinings of. Anatomically, to disarticulate; dislocate: as, to disjoint an arm or a foot; to disjoint the vertebræ.
2. To break the natural order and relations of; pat out of order; derange.
3. To fall in pieces.
4. Disjointed; disjunct; separated.
5. n. A difficult situation; disadvantage.

Wiktionary

1. adj. not smooth or continuous; disjointed
2. adj. 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.
3. v. To render disjoint; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection.
4. v. To fall into pieces.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint.
2. n. obsolete Difficult situation; dilemma; strait.
3. v. To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate
4. v. To separate at junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces
5. v. To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent.
6. v. To fall in pieces.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. separate at the joints
2. v. become separated, disconnected or disjoint
3. v. part; cease or break association with
4. adj. having no elements in common
5. v. make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of