disjoint

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  1. transitive verb To put out of joint; dislocate.
  2. transitive verb To take apart at the joints.
  3. transitive verb To destroy the coherence or connections of.
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  • Given a directed graph, the K node-disjoint paths problem consists in finding a partition of into K node-disjoint paths, such that each path ends up in a given subset of nodes in. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • This article provides a necessary condition for the K node-disjoint paths problem which combines (1) the structure of the reduced graph associated with, (2) the structure of each strongly connected component of with respect to dominance relation between nodes, and (3) the way the nodes of two strongly connected components are inter-connected. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The transform is robust to misdetected objects, temporally-disjoint motion events, and can represent multiple directions of flow at a single location. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • However, these are geometrically disjoint - so any cell we could feed into such a product would vanish on the components. —  Michi's blog
  • The letters are usually disjoint, each letter on its own, instead of contextual shaping. —  Planet GNOME
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  1. Middle English disjointen, to destroy, ultimately from Old French desjoint, past participle of desjoindre, to disjoin; see disjoin.

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  1. from dis- privative + joint, v.
  2. from Middle English disjoynt, from Old French desjoint, desjoinct, F. disjoint (= Spanish disyunto = Italian disgiunto, from Latin disjunctus), past participle of desjoindre, disjoin: see disjoin.
  3. Middle English, from Old French desjointe, desjoincte, separation, division, rupture, from desjoint, past participle of desjoindre, disjoin: see disjoint, a., and disjoin.
 

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/dɪsˈdʒɔɪnt/
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