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# unconnected

«unconnected» in Mova's school dictionary: **Not joined or linked to something: an unconnected wire or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (unconnected)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Not joined or linked to something: an unconnected wire or printer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unconnected/#m1)

2) Not related; having nothing to do with each other: two unconnected events. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unconnected/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science: an unconnected wire breaks a circuit, so the bulb stays off. In stories and news: «The two fires were unconnected» means one did not cause the other. In maths, unconnected dots or points have no line between them.

### examples

- The bulb did not light because one wire was unconnected. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unconnected/#x1)
- The police said the two robberies were unconnected. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unconnected/#x2)
- My printer is unconnected, so nothing prints. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unconnected/#x3)
- Her bad mood was unconnected to the test result. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unconnected/#x4)
- Draw lines to join the unconnected dots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unconnected/#x5)
- The village was unconnected to the internet until last spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unconnected/#x6)

### note

Takes «an». Often «unconnected to» or «unconnected with». Opposite: connected, linked, related. In a circuit, a single unconnected wire means no current flows at all.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unconnected» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unconnected/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.