isolated adj

1 not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "scattered fire"; "a stray bullet grazed his thigh" [syn: scattered, stray]

2 being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling" [syn: detached, separated, set-apart]

3 marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements; "little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"- Scientific Monthly [syn: disjunct]

4 cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard" [syn: marooned, stranded]

5 under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients" [syn: quarantined]

6 remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure village" [syn: apart(p), obscure]

English

Pronunciation

Adjective

1. Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.

Translations

Verb

isolated

1. past of isolate

Anagrams

• diastole
• sodalite
• solidate

The term Isolation may refer to:

• Solitude, the psychological phenomenon
• Solitary confinement
• Isolation tank, sensory deprivation tank
• Isolating language, description of a language type
• Isolation effect, also known as the Von Restorff effect, psychological effect of distinctive items more easily 'remembered'
• People or tribes living in isolation from the outside world.

In politics

• Splendid isolation, British foreign policy of the late 19th century
• Encirclement, of an opposing force in warfare
• Isolationism, political phenomenon where a country removes itself from international affairs

In games and entertainment

• Isolation (poker), raise designed to encourage others to fold
• Isolation (film), 2005 Irish horror movie written and directed by Billy O'Brian
• "Isolation" (John Lennon song) (1970) by John Lennon
• "Isolation" (Joy Division song) (1980) by Joy Division
• Isolation (album) (1984), album by Toto
• Isolation (1996), album by Die Krupps

In other uses

• Isolation (database systems), in computer science
• Isolator switch for electrical isolation.
• Optical isolator, permitting passage of light in only one direction
• Isolation (illusion), an illusion where a ball or other object is made to appear stationary in space.
• Topographic isolation in geodesy, surveying, and mountaineering
• Speciation, separation of two populations of a species
• Isolated point in topology (mathematics)

See also

• Insulation

abandoned, alien, alienated, alone, aloof, anchoretical, anomalous, anonymous, apart, archipelagian, archipelagic, at rest, calm, cloistered, closet, companionless, cool, cordoned, cordoned off, cut off, deserted, detached, disarticulated, disconnected, discrete, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, dispersed, disrelated, dissociated, disunited, divided, divorced, dwindling, ebbing, estranged, even-tenored, exceptional, excluded, exotic, extraneous, foreign, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, halcyon, hermitical, hidden, homeless, hushed, impassive, in a backwater, incognito, incommensurable, incomparable, independent, individual, inmost, innermost, insular, insulated, interior, intimate, inward, irrelative, island, island-dotted, islanded, islandish, islandlike, islandy, isleted, isolate, kithless, lone, lonely, lonesome, moldering, monastic, other, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outlandish, pacific, particular, peaceable, peaceful, personal, placid, private, privy, quarantined, quiescent, quiet, remote, removed, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, retired, rootless, roped off, scattered, seagirt, sealed off, secluded, secret, segregate, segregated, separate, separated, sequestered, sequestrated, set apart, sheltered, shut off, single, single-handed, singular, smooth, solitary, solo, special, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, stranded, strange, subsiding, tranquil, unabetted, unaccompanied, unaffiliated, unagitated, unaided, unallied, unassisted, unassociated, unattended, unconnected, undisturbed, unescorted, unfrequented, unique, unmoved, unperturbed, unrelatable, unrelated, unruffled, unseconded, unstirring, unsupported, untroubled, unvisited, waning, withdrawn