detachment

detachment definitions

• 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.