detachmentn.[Cf. F. dtachement.]1. The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.()2. That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service.()Troops . . . widely scattered in little detachments. (Bancroft.)3. Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation.()A trial which would have demanded of him a most heroic faith and the detachment of a saint. (J. H. Newman.)