Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Disjunction; disunion; separation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of disjoining or the state of being disjoined; separation; disjunction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of disjoining, or state of being disjoined; separation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A lack of
union , or lack ofcoordination , orseparation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun state of being disconnected
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Examples
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This leads to exactly the kind of disjuncture we are seeing.
Chaotic Currencies And Sliding Stocks Signal Seismic Shifts Ahead ADVFN Clem Chambers 2010
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Over time there came to be this kind of disjuncture between disco and funk and increasingly as disco became popular, record companies and managers pushed women [who made funk music] into disco, and disco became more feminized.
Politics Jed Lipinski 2010
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-- remember, consumer confidence levels are very high, there's a kind of disjuncture between the consumer confidence surveys and the polls.
Laura Tyson And Ron Brown Briefing On The Economy ITY National Archives 1994
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As stated in those blogs, these proposals show the disjuncture between Tory policy and rhetoric that there would be a route and branch change of power from the centre to local people.
Signs of Cameron’s opportunism shinning through?…. « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings… 2009
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It is interesting to consider again how Tory rhetoric and actual polices have a clear disjuncture, they are definitely the party of headlines and soundbites as much as Labour have been.
Motorists’ trust eroded further by Tory proposals… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings… 2009
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By concentrating on the conditions of animation, above and beyond any issue of film/video, analog/digital, or any other technical distinction, "The Dissolve" examines one of the practices most central to the modern aesthetic (s) of disjuncture and fabrication.
Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music Peter Frank 2010
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By concentrating on the conditions of animation, above and beyond any issue of film/video, analog/digital, or any other technical distinction, "The Dissolve" examines one of the practices most central to the modern aesthetic (s) of disjuncture and fabrication.
Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music Peter Frank 2010
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However, this discourse has a central theme of contradiction, as there is a disjuncture between rhetoric and policies regarding localisation.
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However, this discourse has a central theme of contradiction running through it, which sees a disjuncture between rhetoric and policies regarding localisation.
The localised dream, riddled with contradiction… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings… 2009
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It is interesting to consider again how Tory rhetoric and actual polices have a clear disjuncture, they are definitely the party of headlines and soundbites as much as Labour have been.
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