Definition of Disconnected

1. Adjective. (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply. "Staccato notes"

Exact synonyms: Staccato
Category relationships: Music
Similar to: Abrupt
Derivative terms: Disconnectedness
Antonyms: Legato

2. Adjective. Having been divided; having the unity destroyed. "A split group"
Exact synonyms: Disunited, Fragmented, Split
Similar to: Divided
Derivative terms: Disconnectedness

3. Adjective. Marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions. "Abrupt prose"
Exact synonyms: Abrupt
Similar to: Staccato

4. Adjective. Not plugged in or connected to a power source. "The iron is disconnected"
Similar to: Off

5. Adjective. Lacking orderly continuity. "Scattered thoughts"

Definition of Disconnected

1. Verb. (past of disconnect) ¹

2. Adjective. That is no longer connected. ¹

3. Adjective. Feeling a lack of empathy or association with something. ¹

4. Adjective. (mathematics of a topological space) That can be partitioned into two nonempty subsets which are both open and closed. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disconnected

1. disconnect [v] - See also: disconnect

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disconnected

disconfirmation
disconfirmations
disconfirmed
disconfirmed expectancy
disconfirming
disconfirms
disconformable
disconformities
disconformity
discongruities
discongruity
disconjugate
disconjugate movement of eyes
disconnect
disconnectable
disconnected (current term)
disconnectedly
disconnectedness
disconnecting
disconnection
disconnection syndrome
disconnections
disconnective
disconnectivity
disconnector
disconnectors
disconnects
disconnexion
disconnexions
disconsecrate

Literary usage of Disconnected

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. From Comte to Benjamin Kidd: The Appeal to Biology Or Evolution for Human by Robert Mackintosh (1899)
"Or as if force and force were disconnected? II. Darwin treats variation as casual, ie as a thing with no bearing in itself on the purpose of the species ..."

2. The Trackman's Helper: A Book of Instruction for Track Foremen by Joseph Kindelan, Frederick Augustus Smith, F. R. Coates, Jerry Sullivan (1894)
"LINING disconnected TRACK. 42. Foremen when lining track that has been washed out, or that has been disconnected at one end should never commence lining ..."

3. The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry by Society of Chemical Industry (1884)
"In case the current of gas is too rapid, the escaping nitric acid is absorbed in D. After an hour the tubes Ё and F are disconnected, while the solutions in ..."

4. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"If the lever does not extend through the running board, the reach rod should be disconnected, if necessary, and a block fitted into the link slot of the ..."

5. Commentaries on the Law of Evidence in Civil Cases by Burr W. Jones, Louis Horwitz (1913)
"Relevancy of disconnected facts to show defective machinery.—With the increased use of machinery and the proportionate increase of accidents, the law of the ..."

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