Dictionary Definition
separation
Noun
1 the act of dividing or disconnecting
2 coming apart [syn: breakup, detachment]
3 the state of lacking unity [ant: union]
4 the distance between things; "fragile items
require separation and cushioning" [syn: interval]
5 sorting one thing from others; "the separation
of wheat from chaff"; "the separation of mail by postal
zones"
6 the social act of separating or parting
company; "the separation of church and state"
7 the space where a division or parting occurs;
"he hid in the separation between walls"
8 termination of employment (by resignation or
dismissal)
9 (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and
wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order) [syn:
legal
separation]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
Translations
the act of separating
- Hungarian: elválasztás
- Portuguese: separação
the place at which a division occurs
- Portuguese: separação
an interval, gap or space that separates things
- Hungarian: távolság, köz
- Portuguese: separação
(law) an agreement terminating a relationship
- Hungarian: különélés
- Portuguese: separação
Extensive Definition
Separation may refer to several different
subjects:
- Separation processes, in chemistry
- Flow separation, separation of a fluid boundary layer from the surface of a solid body moving relative to the fluid
- Legal separation, a legal status where married couples may disentangle their finances without divorce
- Separation (United States military), process by which a service member leaves active duty
- Separation mastering, in music recording
- Separation (Air Traffic Control),rules to minimise the risk of collision between aircraft in flight
- Separation of church and state, the idea that religion and government functions should be separate
- Separation axioms, concepts in the area of mathematics called topology
- Separated sets, related concept in topology, two sets disjoint from the other's closure
separation in Czech: Separace
separation in German: Separation
separation in French: Séparation
separation in Ido: Separo
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Jim Crow, aberration, aesthetic
distance, alien, alienation, alteration, analysis, analyzation, anatomization, anatomizing, anatomy, annulment, apartheid, apartness, assay, assaying, atomization, barrier, bolting, brattice, breach, breach of friendship,
break, breakdown, breaking down,
breaking up, breakup,
broken home, broken marriage, buffer, buffer state, bulkhead, bumper, centrifugence, change, clarification, clearance, cleavage, cleft, cloison, colature, collision mat, color
bar, compass, contradistinction,
cordon, cordon sanitaire,
cordoning off, cushion,
deactivation,
decentralization,
decree of nullity, deep space, demarcation, demobilization, deployment, depths of space,
destructive distillation, desynonymization,
detachment, deviation, diaphragm, diaspora, dichotomy, differencing, differentiation,
disaffection,
disassociation,
disbandment,
disconnection,
discrimination,
disequalization,
disfavor, disintegration, disjointedness, disjunction, dismemberment, dismissal, disorganization,
dispersal, dispersion, disruption, dissection, dissepiment, dissociation, dissolution, dissolution of
marriage, distance,
distillation,
distinction,
distinctiveness,
distinguishment,
disunion, disunity, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversification,
dividedness,
dividing line, dividing wall, division, divorce, divorcement, docimasy, edulcoration, elution, elutriation, essentialization,
estrangement,
ethnocentrism,
exclusiveness,
extent, extraction, falling-out,
fanning, fanning out,
farness, fender, filtering, filtration, fission, foreigner, fracture, fracturing, fragmentation, grasswidowhood,
gravimetric analysis, hairsplitting, individualization,
individuation,
infinity, insularity, insulation, interlocutory
decree, interseptum,
isolation, isolationism, keeping
apart, know-nothingism, leaching, leeway, length, light-years, lixiviation, margin, mat, microscopic distinction,
midriff, midsection, mileage, modification, narrowness, nice distinction,
nuance, open rupture,
out-group, outcast,
outsider, pad, panel, paries, parochialism, parsecs, particularization,
parting, partition, party wall,
percolation, persona
non grata, personalization,
perspective,
piece, privacy, privatism, privatization, property
line, proximate analysis, purification, quantitative
analysis, quarantine,
quarantine flag, race hatred, racial segregation, range, reach, recall of ambassadors,
recess, reclusion, reduction to
elements, refinement,
release, remoteness, resolution, retirement, retreat, riddling, rift, rupture, rustication, sanitary
cordon, schism, scission, screening, seclusion, secrecy, segmentation, segregation, semimicroanalysis,
separate maintenance, separateness, separatism, septulum, septum, sequestration, severalization, severance, shade of
difference, shattering, shedding, shock pad, sieving, sifting, snobbishness, space, span, specialization, spiritualization,
splaying, splendid
isolation, split,
split-up, splitting,
spread, spreading, spreading out,
straining, stranger, stretch, stride, subdivision, sublimation, subtle
distinction, tightness, trichoschistism,
trichotomy, variation, wall, way, ways, winnowing, withdrawal, xenophobia, yellow flag,
yellow jack