Separation definition

sĕpə-rāshən
The place where a separating occurs; break; division; gap.
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A separating or being separated.
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Something that separates.
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The act or process of moving apart or forcing something apart.

The separation of continents from a single landmass; the separation of railroad cars from a train.

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The condition of being so sorted or distinguished.

The unquestioned separation of labor by gender.

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An interval, gap or space that separates things.
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(military) Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.
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A legal arrangement by which a husband and wife remain married but live apart.
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The condition of being apart, especially the condition of two people who had lived together or been married living in different places.
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An interval or space that separates; a gap.

The separation between the lead runner and the pack was getting longer.

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The process of sorting or distinguishing into different components, groups, or categories.

The gradual separation of the sciences into physical and biological.

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The voluntary cessation by spouses of cohabitation and other marital relations.
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A formal legal severing of the relations between spouses that does not dissolve the marriage as in divorce.
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In some jurisdictions, divorce.
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The condition of a husband and wife who remain married but who live apart, whether by mutual agreement or by decree of a court. See also divorce.
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Termination of an employment contact.
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The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
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Discharge, as from employment or military service.
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The place at which a division occurs.
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(law) An agreement terminating a relationship between husband and wife, but short of a divorce.
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The definition of a separation is a break, or the place where a split happens.

An example of a separation is one person leaving another.

An example of a separation is the perforation in paper towels where one towel is torn from another.

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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
separation
Plural:
separations

Origin of separation

  • Attested in the 15th Century CE; from Old French separation, from Latin separationem.

    From Wiktionary

Separation Sentence Examples

  • The principle of separation was abandoned.

  • Sonya was unhappy at the separation from Nicholas and still more so on account of the hostile tone the countess could not help adopting toward her.

  • There is evidence in the languages, too, which supports the physical separation from their New Zealand neighbours and, therefore, from the Polynesian family of races.

  • The problem is a very difficult one and cannot be regarded as definitely settled, but it is difficult to understand why all this additional complexity in the division of the nucleus should be necessary if the final result is only a quantitative separation of the chromatin.

  • Although this separation might have been expected to be final, it is not certain that it was so.

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