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Definition of Disconnected

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

2. Adjective. Having been divided; having the unity destroyed. "A split group"

3. Adjective. Marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions. "Abrupt prose"

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

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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