Definition of "disparate"

The London Transport Museum was established, from disparate collections, at Covent Garden in 1980.

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, page 269

Although third-rail operation in the region dates back more than a century, it was in the 1970s that tunnels under Liverpool's city centre opened to bring together previously disparate routes.

2023 February 8, Tony Streeter, “Kirkdale: home to Merseyrail's new '777s'”, in RAIL, number 976, page 36

Then disparate sense impressions come to disparate organs, as light to the eye, taste to the mouth, etc.

1898, John Wesley Powell, Truth and Error

M. Bergson’s philosophy, unlike most of the systems of the past, is dualistic: the world, for him, is divided into two disparate portions, on the one hand life, on the other matter, or rather that inert something which the intellect views as matter.

1912, Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Bergson