Present participle of disjoint; the act of separating at the joints or disconnecting.
From disjoint + -ing. The -ing suffix marks the progressive or continuous aspect of the action.
Disjointing appears in older culinary and anatomical texts—when you disjoint a chicken or a skeleton, you're following natural separation points, showing how this word was literally practical before becoming metaphorical.
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