The action of detaching; separation.
A permanent unit organized for special duties.
Indifference to the concerns of others; disregard; nonchalance; aloofness.
The state of being detached or disconnected; insulation.
The separation of a military unit from the main body for a particular purpose or special mission.
The unit so dispatched.
Absence of bias; impartiality; objectivity.
Any smaller portion of a main body separately employed.
The act of isolating.
The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.