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Disconnection definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISCONNECTION, n. The act of separating, or state of being disunited; separation; want of union.
Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members, but weakness, disconnection and confusion.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: state of being disconnected [syn: disjunction, disjuncture, disconnection, disconnectedness] [ant: connectedness, connection, link]
2: an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding); "he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends"; "there is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy" [syn: gulf, disconnect, disconnection]
3: the act of breaking a connection [syn: disconnection, disjunction]

Merriam Webster's

noun see disconnect I

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (also disconnexion) the act or an instance of disconnecting; the state of being disconnected.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Disconnection Dis`con*nec"tion, n. The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. --Burke.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(disconnections) The disconnection of a gas, water, or electricity supply, or of a telephone, is the act of disconnecting it so that it cannot be used. N-VAR: oft the N of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Disjunction, disassociation, disunion, separation, isolation, severance.

Moby Thesaurus

abstraction, alienation, alternating personality, broken thread, brokenness, depersonalization, detachment, disarticulation, disassociation, disconnectedness, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, discontinuousness, discreteness, disengagement, disjointing, disjunction, disjuncture, dislocation, dissociation, dissociation of personality, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, double personality, dual personality, emotional dissociation, episode, fitfulness, immateriality, impertinence, inapplicability, inappositeness, incoherence, incompleteness, inconnection, inconsequence, independence, intermittence, irregularity, irrelation, irrelevance, isolation, luxation, mental dissociation, multiple personality, non sequitur, noncontinuance, nonlinearity, nonseriality, nonuniformity, paranoia, paranoid personality, parenthesis, parting, partition, personality disorganization, removal, schizoid personality, schizoidism, schizophrenia, schizothymia, segmentation, separateness, separation, separatism, split personality, subdivision, subtraction, unconnectedness, unrelatedness, withdrawal, zoning