Tropile decides he must physically disconnect himself from the Snowflake and leave to lead the humans.

But it's a network that exists physically disconnected from the regular Internet.

Failures can be as easily recoverable as a physically disconnected networking connection, or as catastrophic as a hard drive crash.

"We're going to have to get in there and physically disconnect the wires."

The only glitch we encountered was during installation, when we were advised to physically disconnect our Internet connection.

The major problem with the agreement is that it leaves unanswered whether Bell Atlantic can physically disconnect its equipment when customers switch to other carriers even if the switches could be achieved by tapping a few computer keys at much less cost to consumers.

During routine maintenance, isolation valves were closed and compressed air hoses that actuated them physically disconnected as a safety measure.

Effectively they told the routers on the other end of every line into Egypt to forget about that line, effectively walling Egypt off without physically disconnecting the line.

These couples appear to be both physically and emotionally disconnected because in many ways, both subtle and overt, that is how they are told they should behave.