Definition of "disjunctive"

That broken comb exemplifies the apparently inexhaustible strength of the novel's flotsam, its disjunctive detail which makes nevertheless for tonal coherence.

1985, John Jones, Dostoevsky, Oxford University Press, USA

[…] that the phrase should be articulated in one breath; failing this, Quantz recommends that breath should be taken wherever possible on tied notes, between disjunctive notes of continuous semiquavers or at other equivalent moments.

2005, Simon P. Keefe, The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto, Cambridge University Press, page 206

An opposition of contrariety is not of purely logical concernment; and a disjunctive syllogism with characters opposed in contrariety, in fact, consists of as many pure disjunctive syllogisms as there are opposing predicates.

1873, Sir William Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, page 235

Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals.

L. H. Atwater