noun🔗ShareThe state of being disjointed; disjointedness; a disconnect."The sudden disjuncts in their communication, once so easy and natural, signaled trouble in their friendship. "conditionstategapChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareOne of multiple propositions, any of which, if true, confirm the validity of another proposition (a disjunction)."In the sentence "Either it's raining, or the sprinkler is on," the two propositions, "it's raining" and "the sprinkler is on," are disjuncts; if either one is true, then the statement "Either it's raining, or the sprinkler is on" is true. "logiclanguagephilosophymathChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAny sentence element that is not fully integrated into the clausal structure of the sentence.""Honestly, class, these comma-separated comments are distracting disjuncts in your essays." "grammarlinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAn adverbial that expresses the speaker's or writer's attitude towards, or descriptive statement of, the propositional content of the associated clause or sentence."Honestly, the disjuncts in his speech made it clear he didn't believe a word he was saying. "grammarlinguisticslanguageChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
