✂️ Not connected 🐝 Separated parts 🎶 Wide intervals 🌍 Isolated groups

disjunct

9.9

Found in separate areas as groups that are not connected

adjective
/dɪsˈdʒʌŋkt/

Specialized

: discontinuo

There really is a disjunct between large gametes, which we call eggs and small gametes, sperms.
a disjunct distribution

Examples

These lines of evidence provide support for ML dolphins being a disjunct community from the IRL proper (Indian and Banana Rivers) and for movements of these dolphins beyond the IRL boundaries, supporting the variance seen in this stratum.

Academic text (2016)
On the other hand, for three people, the complementary problem is a complicated disjunct, a bunch of ORS.
Comeaux attributed this disjunct distribution to differences in European diets.

Academic text (2013)
Seasonal trends and corresponding genetic and movement data suggest Mosquito Lagoon may be a disjunct community from the IRL proper.

Academic text (2016)
Despite the wide but disjunct distribution of the genus throughout the American tropics, no other form of guadua compares in economic importance with the one discussed here.

Academic text (1991)
We acknowledge that because we were unable to survey all potential habitats in every area, not every currently occupied and relict site was detected in our survey effort, and this lack of data may artificially cause some demes to appear disjunct.

Academic text (2017)
The survey revealed multiple species with disjunct populations scattered across the mountain range.
Research indicated that the disjunct distribution of the bird species was due to environmental changes over time.
Many plants exhibit a disjunct distribution, thriving in isolated areas far from their main habitats.

Synonyms

separate

vsdisjunct

829 2.1

Not joined to another thing and kept apart

emphasizes occurrence as distinct clustered groups rather than simple unjoined items

distinct

vsdisjunct

168 3.5

Clearly different from others

focuses on being in separate clusters rather than mere difference

isolated

vsdisjunct

59 4.5

Happening rarely and not close to other events

describes groups that form distinct clustered occurrences rather than single events

discrete

vsdisjunct

24 6.1

Separate from other things and clearly different

is about populations occurring in separate clustered groups

segregated

vsdisjunct

Offensive

1 5.8

Separated from other people because of race, religion or other differences

describes naturally separate population clusters rather than imposed separation

disjoint

vsdisjunct

Specialized

1 8.1

Having no members in common

describes spatially separate group occurrences rather than membership nonoverlap

separated

vsdisjunct

1.0

Not together with other people, kept apart from them

refers to naturally occurring clusterings rather than deliberate removal

divided

vsdisjunct

3.0

Split into groups that do not agree

means groups occur in separate clusters rather than just being split into parts

Antonyms

continuous

141 3.7

Without a break or gap, for example in a curve

integrated

2 3.8

Having different parts that work together as one

How Continuous

continuous

141 3.7

patchy

11 3.7

disjunct

Specialized

9.9

fragmented

9 4.4

Surface Forms

disjunct positive

Morphology

disjunct = dis + junct

The idea of separated groups fits the historical morphology, but the bound root and specialized distributional sense make the word hard to interpret compositionally for average learners.

Etymology

Disjunct comes from dis- 'apart' and junct 'to join', and it describes things that occur in separate pieces rather than as one whole. So a disjunct distribution means populations or areas are split into distinct, non-joined groups.