To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.

To cut off from association or society; to sever, disunite, sunder.

part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president"

to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms; "acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions"

To separate all or part of one's consciousness from awareness of the physical environment; in DID, to split off part of one's soul into a separate identity or to switch from one identity to another. DISSOCIATION—A temporary or prolonged disruption in normal consciousness in which one's sense of identity, memory, and/or perception of the environment may be altered or separated. This phenomenon lies on a continuum ranging from normal day-dreaming and “highway hypnosis” on one end to the formation of alternate-identities (DID) at the other end.

The process by which any link that exists between two VxVM objects is removed. For example, dissociating a subdisk from a plex removes the subdisk from the plex and adds the subdisk to the free space pool.

regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology"