disjunct adjective & noun. ['dɪsdʒʌŋkt] LME.
[Latin disjunctus pa. pple of disjungere: see DISJOIN.]
A. adjective.
1. Disjoined, separate, distinct. Now rare exc. techn. LME.
Scientific American Two disjunct areas in Malaya support a single species of tree.

2. Logic.
a. = DISJUNCTIVE adjective 2. L16-M17.
b. Designating each term of a disjunctive proposition. M19.

3. Music. Designating motion by leaps of more than one degree of a scale (i.e. by intervals of more than a second); proceeding by or involving such leaps. Opp. CONJUNCT adjective 4. L17.
b. noun. Logic. Each of the terms of a disjunctive proposition. E20.

■ disjunctly adverb M17-E18.

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