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.
The action of detaching; separation.
Absence of bias; impartiality; objectivity.
Any smaller portion of a main body separately employed.
A connection or relation between things or ideas.
The act or result of linking: the combination of multiple object files into one executable, library, or object file.
A United States foreign policy, during the 1970s détente in the Cold War, of persuading the Soviet Union to co-operate in restraining revolutions in the Third World in return for nuclear and economic concessions.
A mechanical device that connects things.
The property of genes of being inherited together.
A set of definitely related languages for which no proto-language can be derived, typically a group of languages within a family that have formed a sprachbund.