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Disconnected vs Discontinued - What's the difference?

disconnected | discontinued |

As verbs the difference between disconnected and discontinued

is that disconnected is past tense of disconnect while discontinued is past tense of discontinue.

As adjectives the difference between disconnected and discontinued

is that disconnected is that is no longer connected while discontinued is permanently no longer available or in production.

disconnected

English

Verb

(head)
  • (disconnect)
    • The phone company disconnected my DSL.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That is no longer connected.
    • There's no use trying to make a call on the disconnected phone.
  • Feeling a lack of empathy or association with something.
    • I just feel so disconnected from people living on the other side of the world.
  • (mathematics, of a topological space) That can be partitioned into two nonempty subsets which are both open and closed.

    • Antonyms

    * connected

    Derived terms

    * disconnectedly * disconnectedness

    discontinued

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Permanently no longer available or in production.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (discontinue)
    • This software line has been discontinued .