Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of separating or disuniting, or the state of being disunited; separation; interruption or lack of union.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Severance of a physical connection.
  • noun Unexpected termination of a telephone connection.
  • noun Absence of rapport; the nonexistence of, or a breakdown of, effective communication.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun state of being disconnected
  • noun the act of breaking a connection
  • noun an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)

Etymologies

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dis- +‎ connection

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