disjunction

Roget category 44

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.3. Quantity
›› 1.3.3. Conjunctive quantity

#44. Disjunction

noun

disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement — discontinuity etc. 70 — abjunction^† — cataclasm^† — inconnection^† — abstraction, abstractedness — isolation — insularity, insulation — oasis — island — separateness etc. adj. — severalty — disjecta membra [Lat.] — dispersion etc. 73 — apportionment etc. 786.
separation — parting etc. v. — circumcision — detachment, segregation — divorce, sejunction^†, seposition^†, diduction^†, diremption^†, discerption^† — elision — caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture — compartition^† — dismemberment, dislocation — luxation^† — severance, disseverance — scission — rescission, abscission — laceration, dilaceration^† — disruption, abruption^† — avulsion^†, divulsion^† — section, resection, cleavage — fission — partibility^†, separability.
fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision.
dissection anatomy — decomposition etc. 49 — cutting instrument etc. (sharpness) 253 — buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw.
separatist.

verb

be disjoined &c. — come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces — peel off — get loose.
disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair^† — divorce, part, dispart^†, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate — set apart, keep apart — insulate, isolate — throw out of gear — cut adrift — loose — unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock etc. (fix) 43, unpack, unravel — disentangle — set free etc. (liberate) 750.
sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind^† — circumcise — cut — incide^†, incise — saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst — rend &c., rend asunder, rend in twain — wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch^†, crunch, craunch^†, chop — cut up, rip up — hack, hew, slash — whittle — haggle, hackle, discind^†, lacerate, scamble^†, mangle, gash, hash, slice.
cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize — dislimb^† — take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces — tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb — divellicate^† — skin etc. 226 — disintegrate, dismember, disbranch^†, disband — disperse etc. 73 — dislocate, disjoint — break up — mince — comminute etc. (pulverize) 330 — apportion etc. 786.
part, part company — separate, leave.

adjective

disjoined etc. v. — discontinuous etc. 70 — multipartite^†, abstract — disjunctive — secant — isolated etc. v. — insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free — unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected — distinct — adrift — straggling — rift, reft^†.
[capable of being cut] scissile [Chem], divisible, discerptible^†, partible, separable.

adverb

separately etc. adj. — one by one, severally, apart — adrift, asunder, in twain — in the abstract, abstractedly.

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