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Antonyms of “intersection ”

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This is not a single word, but in mathematics, conceptually you are after the symmetric difference:

In mathematics, the symmetric difference, also known as the disjunctive union, of two sets is the set of elements which are in either of the sets and not in their intersection.
Wikipedia

The reference article provides a nice illustration:

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For traffic or roads, I thought about roundabout, which is a way to get to a cross street without a direct intersection, or a track, which is a closed circuit used for racing, thus theoretically lacks an intersection.