meaning of disconnect

1. To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse.
2. disconnect SCSI reconnect Discordianism /dis-kordi-*n-ism/ The veneration of Eris, also known as Discordia; widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularised by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilsons novel "Illuminatus!" as a sort of self-subverting Dada-Zen for Westerners - it should on no account be taken seriously but is far more serious than most jokes. Consider, for example, the Fifth Commandment of the Pentabarf, from "Principia Discordia": "A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing What he Reads. " Discordianism is usually connected with an elaborate conspiracy theory/joke involving millennia-long warfare between the anarcho-surrealist partisans of Eris and a malevolent, authoritarian secret society called the Illuminati. See Religion, Church of the SubGenius, and ha ha only serious. [Jargon File]
3. 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"

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