Separated at the joints; disconnected or dislocated; not properly connected or fitting together smoothly.
From dis- (apart) + joint (from Latin iunctus, past participle of iungere, 'to join'). Literally describes something separated at its joints or connection points.
In mathematics and computer science, 'disjoint' has become a crucial technical term—disjoint sets have no elements in common—showing how old words sometimes gain entirely new specialized meanings in different fields.
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