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segregation

noun
/sɛɡɹəˈɡeɪ̯ʃən/

Etymology

1555. From Latin segregatio. Morphologically segregate + -ion.

  1. derived from segregatio

Definitions

  1. The act of setting apart and organizing things based upon their characteristics.

  2. The separation of people based upon race, sex, religion, or other identity in…

    The separation of people based upon race, sex, religion, or other identity in institutions.

  3. The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only…

    The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through…

      Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.

    2. The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public…

      The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).

    3. The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis

    4. Separation for practical reasons, by necessity.

      • It has long been recognised that complete segregation of control of the respective services provided by the two undertakings, and of the power supply, signalling, and tracks relating to each was desirable.

    5. The separation of a subset of prisoners from the general prison population, possibly…

      The separation of a subset of prisoners from the general prison population, possibly solitary confinement.

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Derived

administrative segregation, antisegregation, cosegregation, hypersegregation, interface segregation principle, macrosegregation, malsegregation, microsegregation, missegregation, nonsegregation, postsegregation, resegregation, segregational, segregation distorter, segregationism, segregationist, segregationless, ultrasegregationist

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for segregation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA