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Scattered vs Disconnected - What's the difference?

scattered | disconnected |

As verbs the difference between scattered and disconnected

is that scattered is (scatter) while disconnected is (disconnect).

As adjectives the difference between scattered and disconnected

is that scattered is randomly distributed while disconnected is that is no longer connected.

scattered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (scatter)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Randomly distributed.
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  • (meteorology, of clouds) covering three eighths to four eighths of the sky.
  • (meteorology, of precipitation) affecting 30 percent to 50 percent of a forecast zone.
  • Derived terms

    * nonscattered * scatteredly * scatteredness * unscattered

    Anagrams

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    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