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little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara.
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disjunct distribution of king crabs.

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The prefixes can be divided into a conjunct prefix set and disjunct prefix set.
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The conjunct prefixes occur after the disjunct prefixes, closer to the verb stem.
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The present edition is a veritable potpourri of disjunct and disparate topics.
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The disjunct boundary in the Navajo and Tanaina verb prefix complexes.
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It wraps back upon itself and forms new space consisting of disjunct Planckian black holes.
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Small disjunct resident populations occur in southwesternmost Greenland and western Iceland.
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Disjunct populations in northeastern and southeastern South America.
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East coastal North America, plus disjunct population in Oklahoma.
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African and Asian elephant species have disjunct distributions, and do not hybridize in the wild.
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  • Progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second
  • Having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects
  • 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"- Scientific Monthly
  • Used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations; "disjunct distribution of king crabs"
  • (disjunction) state of being disconnected
  • In linguistics, a disjunct is a type of adverbial adjunct that expresses information that is not considered essential to the sentence it appears in, but which is considered to be the speaker's or writer's attitude towards, or descriptive statement of, the propositional content of the sentence. ...
  • In music, a step, or conjunct motionBonds, Mark Evan (2006). A History of Music in Western Culture, p.123. 2nd ed. ISBN 0-13-193104-0., is a linear or successive interval between two pitches which are consecutive scale degrees. ...
  • (Disjunctions) In logic and mathematics, or, also known as logical disjunction or inclusive disjunction, is a logical operator that results in true whenever one or more of its operands are true. E.g. in this context, "A or B" is true if A is true, or if B is true, or if both A and B are true. ...
  • One of multiple propositions, any of which, if true, confirm the validity of another proposition (a disjunction)