Is there a quick way to notate 'any intersection of these sets is the empty set'?

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Is there a quick way to notate 'any intersection of these sets is the empty set'?

I have a number of sets, I want to express that none share any elements with any other. Is there a way to express that other than individually notating every intersection as equal to the empty set?


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From PJS36's answer, I found an answer to the question of notation on wolfram mathworld:

sets $A_1, A_2, ..., A_n$ are disjoint if $ A_i \cap A_j =\emptyset$ for $ i\neq j$.

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The phrase I've always seen/used is "pairwise disjoint." Given sets $A_i$, if $A_i \cap A_j = \emptyset$ for $i \neq j$, we say that the sets are pairwise disjoint.