disengagement

disengage | American Dictionary

disengage
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˌdɪs·ənˈɡeɪdʒ/
to become separate or not connected, or to cause this to happen:
[ I ]The US should not disengage from Europe, she said.

Examples of disengage

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Antidepressant medications appear to have exerted ' bottom-up ' effects by disengaging ventral frontal and limbic regions.
The terms ' active ' and ' disengaged ', however, must be used carefully.
Oxygen and caloric are thus disengaged, followed by an ensuing combination of oxygen and the particular third substance present in the given experiment.
If the latch is later disengaged, the spring will push the blocks back to the left.
Likewise, cohesive, disengaged, and enmeshed profiles of family functioning may reflect underlying secure, avoidant, and resistant patterns of attachment, respectively.
How is turn-by-turn talk engaged, sustained and disengaged?
Recipients produce minimal agreement tokens to these summaries, and at this point they are potentially disengaged from that topic.
The nicked junction behaves as if one helix disengages from the other on releasing the constraint of one strand, resulting in the observed rotation.
They are far from being ' disengaged ' in the full sense implied by disengagement theory.
They are less likely than the merit poor to be disengaged.
The example may just be, instead, a mere analogy for an inconceivably different type of consciousness in which such allencompassing yet disengaged comprehension is possible.
Children who are physiologically well regulated may be more at risk than their poorly regulated peers for displaying reduced positivity with their friend when parents are hostile and disengaged.
Linkages among the profiles of family functioning, emotional insecurity, and child psychological symptoms were consistently found for planned comparisons involving disengaged and enmeshed families but not for adequate families.
Our final aim was to examine whether children's emotional security in the interparental relationship mediated the link between enmeshed and disengaged family configurations and child psychological symptoms.
In acts of affiliation, persons must manage the twin risks of appearing disengaged from the affairs of the other, or appearing over-involved with and even appropriating them.
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