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The act of breaking a connection
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disconnection
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. state of being disconnected [syn: disjunction , disjuncture , disconnectedness ] [ant: connection ] 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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International 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.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Disconnection is the practice of shunning in Scientology. Disconnection , Disconnect , or Disconnected may also refer to:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1735, disconnexion ; see dis- "not" + connection . Spelling disconnection attested from 1769.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 severance of a physical connection. 2 unexpected termination of a telephone connection. 3 absence of rapport; the nonexistence of, or a breakdown of, effective communication.
Usage examples of disconnection.
As he went back down the sidewalk she looked around at her comfortable home, wondering at the weird sense of disconnection, as if she would never see it again.
The more we are connected to the desire to receive for ourselves, the greater our disconnection from the Light.
Forced disconnections in burndives were an absolute no-no, especially if you had implants.
She felt jihe, the moment of disconnection with her corporeal body, and then, as her Avatar, the great bird Ras Shamra, she was passing across the grey, white, and black landscape of Otherwhere.
When talking to Bishop Dugan in the Diocese office, he had used all the correct buzzwords of the time to express this unease: anomie, urban malaise, an increasing lack of empathy, a sense of disconnection from the life of the spirit.
It could manufacture all the traces, blowbacks, and disconnection attempts that he expected from top-of-the-line gear, attacking and defending and then counterattacking so quickly that it was like fighting war in space at light speed.
So tiny are the disconnections in time that the gaps between segments are practically imperceptible.
And if disconnections and abrupt leaps are visible in the economy of the past--from matter to life, from the animal to man--we have no authority again for claiming that we cannot observe today something analogous in the very essence of human life, that the point of view of the flesh, and the point of view of the spirit, the point of view of reason, and the point of view of charity are a homogeneous extension of it.
The group is pleading with Labour to eliminate electricity and gas heating disconnections, and this puts them squarely up against Draper’s and Milner’s key clients, the utility companies.
At the very least, they'll increase the danger of nervous disconnections that will render the muscles impotent.
Coldly thoughtful, Sabel made more disconnections, and rearrangements.
Coldly thoughtful, Sabel made more disconnections, and rearrangements.