Segregation Definition

sĕgrĭ-gāshən
noun
The act or process of segregating or the condition of being segregated.
American Heritage Medicine
A segregating or being segregated; specif., the policy or practice of compelling racial groups to live apart from each other, go to separate schools, use separate social facilities, etc.
Webster's New World
The separation of allelic genes into different gametes during meiosis so that a particular gamete receives only one member of a pair of characters.
Webster's New World

The setting apart or separation of things or people, as a natural process, a manner of organizing people that may be voluntary or enforced by law.

Wiktionary
(biology) The Mendelian Law of Segregation related to genetic transmission or geographical segregation of various species.
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Other Word Forms of Segregation

Noun

Singular:
segregation
Plural:
segregations

Origin of Segregation

  • 1555. From Latin segregatio.

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