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English Dictionary: disconnection by the DICT Development Group
2 results for disconnection
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
disconnection
n
  1. state of being disconnected [syn: disjunction, disjuncture, disconnection, disconnectedness]
    Antonym(s): 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"
    Synonym(s): gulf, disconnect, disconnection
  3. the act of breaking a connection
    Synonym(s): disconnection, disjunction
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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