disjunct

Meanings

1. Separate; discontinuous; not connected.
2. Occurring in widely separated geographic areas.

1. The state of being disjointed; disjointedness; a disconnect.
2. A species or population occurring at a distant or separate location, and separated from other members of the same group.
3. One of multiple propositions, any of which, if true, confirm the validity of another proposition (a disjunction).
4. Any sentence element that is not fully integrated into the clausal structure of the sentence.
5. An adverbial that expresses the speaker's or writer's attitude towards, or descriptive statement of, the propositional content of the associated clause or sentence.
6. A conjunct of a disjunctive conjunction.

Etymology

From dis- + Latin junctus (“joined”).