disjoint

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These drama kings and queens of the novel are a chameleonic joint family of disjoint motives.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

You can separate it into two disjoint pieces fairly easily: one of the pieces contains points with x coordinates less than 1/2 and one with x coordinates greater than 1/2.

From Scientific American • Jun. 20, 2015

The data are divided into disjoint sub-samples and the BDT trained on one sub-sample is applied to a different sub-sample to avoid any bias.

From Nature • May 12, 2015

How do we resolve this disjoint between a binary system that sees things only in black and white and the public’s need for an honest investigation of the shades of gray in between?

From Slate • Dec. 10, 2014

She watched him disjoint a pair of frogs’ legs.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger