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Another word for disunion

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Noun

  1. The act or an instance of separating one thing from another

      1. A permanent unit, usually smaller than a platoon, organized for special duties.
      2. A detaching; separation
      3. (Countable) Any smaller portion of a main body separately employed.
      1. (--- Logic) The relation between the alternatives of a disjunctive proposition
      2. The act of disjoining or the condition of being disjointed.
      3. (Genetics) The separation of homologous chromosomes during meiosis.
      1. Disjunction; disunion; separation.
      2. A lack of union, or lack of coordination, or separation.
      1. Disseverance
      2. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
      1. (Biol.) A major category in the classification of living organisms, esp. plants, ranking above a class and below a kingdom: it can include one class or many similar classes: the Latinized division names are capitalized but not italicized (Ex.: Pinophyta, gymnosperms)
      2. The proportional distribution of a quantity or entity:
      3. (Biology) Cell division.
      1. A court order or other document establishing such a dissolution.
      2. A separation between things that were once connected or associated.
      3. The legal dissolution of a marriage.
      1. Complete separation.
      2. Divorce
      1. The act or process of separating or dividing.
      2. The state of being separated or divided.
      3. A place of division or separation; dividing point or line
      1. (Law) Division of property, especially real property, between co-owners into equivalent, separately owned portions or shares.
      2. Division of a country into separate, autonomous nations.
      3. A parting or being parted; division into parts; separation; apportionment
      1. The condition of being so sorted or distinguished:
      2. A formal legal severing of the relations between spouses that does not dissolve the marriage as in divorce.
      3. The place where a separating occurs; break; division; gap
      1. The act of severing or the state of being severed.
      2. The act or process of severing.
      3. Separation; partition.
      1. An arrangement of bowling pins left standing after a bowl, in which two or more pins remain standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
      2. The division of a company's stock by issuing multiples of the existing shares with a corresponding reduction in the price of each share.
      3. A breach or division in a group, between persons, etc.
    See also:

    assemble

    part

  2. The condition of being divided, as in opinion

      1. (Physiology) A turning of both eyes outward from a common point or of one eye when the other is fixed.
      2. The degree to which two or more things diverge.
      3. (Meteorology) A condition characterized by the uniform expansion in volume of a mass of air over a region, usually accompanied by fair dry weather.
      1. A divergence or deviation.
      2. (Countable) divergence
      3. (Uncountable) The state of being divergent
      1. (Biol.) A major category in the classification of living organisms, esp. plants, ranking above a class and below a kingdom: it can include one class or many similar classes: the Latinized division names are capitalized but not italicized (Ex.: Pinophyta, gymnosperms)
      2. The proportional distribution of a quantity or entity:
      3. (Biology) Cell division.
      1. Any of the sects, parties, etc. formed by such a split
      2. The act of causing or trying to cause a split or division in a church
      3. A separation or division into factions:
    See also:

    assemble

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Another word for disunion

Noun

  1. Dissension

    See also:

    disagreement

  2. Separation

    See also:

    division

    separation

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Sentence Examples

  • Disunion, however, was at work in the rebel camp. The Gauls and Germans, who had withdrawn from the main body, were attacked and destroyed.

  • The succeeding years of disunion and misrule under the Danes explain the belated affection with which his countrymen came to regard him.

  • The convention adjourned to Baltimore, where the Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Maryland delegations left it, and where Douglas was nominated for the presidency by the Northern Democrats; he campaigned vigorously but hopelessly, boldly attacking disunion, and in the election, though he received a popular vote of 1,376,957, he received an electoral vote of only 12 - Lincoln receiving 180.

  • Second period of the union, disunion and reunion of Castile and Leon from Fernando I.

  • On the 3rd of June 1850 a convention, known as the Southern or Nashville Convention, whose action was generally considered a threat of disunion, met here to consider the questions at issue between the North and the South.

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