disconnect (v.)

1.separate into parts or portions"divide the cake into three equal parts" "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"

2.make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten

3.of electrical appliances

disconnect (n.)

1.an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)"he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends" "there is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy"