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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Characterized by separation.
  2. adj. Music Relating to progression by intervals larger than major seconds.
  3. adj. Zoology Having deep constrictions separating the head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects.
  4. n. Logic A term in a disjunction.
  5. n. An adverbial phrase that modifies a sentence in order to suggest the speaker's commentary on the content of the sentence, as with sadly in Sadly, we have no more dessert left.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Disconnected; separated; distinct. Specifically
  2. In entomology, having the head, thorax, and abdomen separated by a deep incision.

Wiktionary

  1. n. logic One of multiple propositions, any of which, if true, confirm the validity of another proposition (a disjunction)
  2. n. linguistics Any sentence element that is not fully integrated into the clausal structure of the sentence.
  3. n. linguistics An adverbial that expresses the speaker's or writer's attitude towards, or descriptive statement of, the propositional content of the associated clause or sentence.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. rare Disjoined; separated.
  2. adj. (Zoöl.) Having the head, thorax, and abdomen separated by a deep constriction.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements
  2. adj. used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations
  3. adj. progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second
  4. adj. having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects

Etymologies

  1. dis- + Latin junctus, "joined". (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English disjuncte, from Latin disiūnctus, past participle of disiungere, to disjoin; see disjoin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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