LET A AND B BE FR´ECHET FUNCTION ALGEBRAS ON COMPACT HAUSDORFF SPACES X AND Y, RESPECTIVELY. A LINEAR MAP T: A ® B IS CALLED SEPARATING, OR DISJOINTNESS PRESERVING, WHENEVER COZ(¦) ∩ COZ(G) = Ø IMPLIES COZ(T¦) ∩ COZ(TG) = Ø, FOR ALL ¦, G Î A. MOREOVER, T IS CALLED BISEPARATING IF IT IS BIJECTIVE AND BOTH T AND T−1 ARE SEPARATING. IF A AND B ARE NORMAL AND STRONGLY REGULAR, THEN WE SHOW THAT EVERY BISEPARATING MAP T: A ® B IS A WEIGHTED COMPOSITION OPERATOR IN THE FORM T¦(Y) = H(Y)¦(J(Y)), WHERE Φ IS A HOMEOMORPHISM FROM Y ONTO X AND H IS A NONVANISHING CONTINUOUS SCALAR-VALUED FUNCTION ON Y . IN PARTICULAR, T IS AUTOMATICALLY CONTINUOUS.