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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
disjunct is an adjective meaning "progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second". It carries 4 recorded senses.
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”
used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations
“disjunct distribution of king crabs”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for disjunct come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.