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disconnected

/ˌdɪskəˈnɛktəd/ adjective B2
  1. That is no longer connected. · There's no use trying to make a call on the disconnected phone.
  2. Feeling a lack of empathy or association with something. · I just feel so disconnected from people living on the other side of the world.
  3. Incoherent; disjointed.
  4. That can be partitioned into two nonempty subsets which are both open and closed.
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Holmes sat in silence in the cab as we drove back to Baker Street, and I knew from his drawn brows and keen face that his mind, like my own, was busy in endeavouring to frame some scheme into which all these strange and apparently disconnected episodes could be fitted.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 57 · C1
When you fly at thirty thousand feet, the world below is reduced to an abstract, disconnected patchwork of colors.
In Praise of Slow Travel, p. 1 · C1

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