non-intersecting

Books that make you laugh out loud; books about the Russian novel: in the grand Venn diagram of literature, these are usually thought of as non-intersecting phenomena.

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman – review 2011

Here is a story about the Catholic Church and liberal activism, a story that suggests the two forces are not the non-intersecting sets they are widely assumed to be.

Margaret Wertheim: The End of Faith? 2008

JOE BARTON, (R) TX: Madame Speaker, what we have today is a classic case of a Washington, DC non-intersecting conversation.

CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2007 2007

I'm willing to accept a Venn Diagram where religion and politics have both intersecting and non-intersecting regions.

Philocrites: Bill Sinkford talks with Boston's 'Bay Windows.' 2005

Northport was not a metropolis, of course; but on the other hand it did not have metropolitan multi-tiered, one-way, non-intersecting streets.

First Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

A 3-space may also be determined by 2 non-intersecting right lines or by a plane and one point not in it.

The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained 1910

"However, we note that even as of last weekend the two factors seemed to be moving in parallel but non-intersecting trajectories."

FOXNews.com Michael S. Arnold 2010

Would a Venn diagram show them as non-intersecting circles?

The Other McCain 2009

in a triangle what is the relationship between the slope of a midsegment and the slope of the non-intersecting side?

Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010