What is the meaning of disjunct?

adjective

  • 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.
    • usage: "disjunct distribution of king crabs"
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