ADJECTIVE
- having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects
- progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second
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marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements
little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara -
used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations
disjunct distribution of king crabs
How To Use disjunct In A Sentence
- The unforested hills and plateaus of the Dissected Loess Uplands ecoregion are cut by the canyons of Ecoregion 10l and are disjunct. Ecoregions of Idaho (EPA)
- With this evidence at hand, one might question whether the three disjunct populations warrant classification as species rather than subspecies.
- Armantrout's short lines, use of rhetoric, aggressive lineation, disjunctions and juxtapositions, discursiveness, parataxis, and myriad condensatory techniques are all exemplary, but never overbearing. Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
- At Ingolstadt, the branchlike ribs are disjunctively representational, carved with protruding nubs or twigs signaling their botanical nature.
- The allusions are swift, the collisions reminiscent of the ‘ply over ply’ technique of Ezra Pound's Cantos, but to more disjunctive ends.
- If too comes after the adverb it is probably a disjunct (meaning also) and is usually set off with a comma:
- Four of those systems are disjunct, meaning they really have no business in the region. NYT > Travel
- As a first approximation, then, moral anti-realism can be identified as the disjunction of three theses: moral noncognivitism moral error theory moral subjectivism Moral Anti-Realism
- An explanation may lie in the disjuncture between human evolution and history. Times, Sunday Times
- The turn of a corner, like the flick of a film frame, can redefine the nature of a disjunctive, heterogeneous spatial continuum.
