0 present participle of disconnect
1 to unfasten something, especially to break the connection between a supply of electricity, gas, water, etc. and a device or piece of equipment:
Disconnecting hippocampal projections to the anterior thalamus produces deficits on tests of spatial memory in rats.
This is the same condition as e1 and e2 having distinct end points, and their removal disconnecting these vertices.
In contrast, in a second group of hamsters, undercutting the tectum, thus disconnecting the superior colliculus, had the opposite effect.
Withdrawing treatment likewise has a nonbranching causal structure - disconnecting a ventilator causes death and death causes some further end - but no lethal agent.
Connection is a matter of disconnecting the cable from the existing control cabinet and hooking it up to the new prototype, with no modifirations.
Surgical correction was eventually achieved by disconnecting the right subclavian artery from the right pulmonary artery and translocating it to the ascending aorta.
As a pragmatist, his goal is to make sure that we not distort them by disconnecting them from our basic human experience.
The cycle rank of a graph is the maximum number of edges that can be removed without disconnecting the graph.
