segregation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
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government
human-sciences
medicine
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sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: 1555. From Latin segregatio. Morphologically segregate + -ion.
Base: segregate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: segregations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of setting apart and organizing things based upon their characteristics.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The separation of people based upon race, sex, religion, or other identity in institutions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The fact that one is gay or one's brother is gay […] — this has less influence on the average HK person's attention or attitude than how he or she finds a job, the way he lives and the way he eats, which is like New York or oter large cities. There tends to be a segregation between a person's private life and his job or other affairs. It does not mean that they are liberal, just that city life fosters this individualism.
gloss: The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Separation for practical reasons, by necessity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The separation of a subset of prisoners from the general prison population, possibly solitary confinement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: apartheid
Jim Crow law
Antonyms: desegregation
Related words: segregate
segregative
segregator
Derived words: administrative segregation
antisegregation
cosegregation
hypersegregation
interface segregation principle
macrosegregation
malsegregation
microsegregation
missegregation
nonsegregation
postsegregation
resegregation
segregational
segregation distorter
segregationism
segregationist
segregationless
ultrasegregationist
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: отделяне
roman: otdeljane
lang: Bulgarian
word: разделяне
roman: razdeljane
lang: Bulgarian
word: изолиране
roman: izolirane
lang: Catalan
word: segregació
lang: Estonian
word: eraldamine
lang: Finnish
word: erottelu
lang: Finnish
word: jakaantuminen
lang: Finnish
word: jaottelu
lang: Finnish
word: jaotteleminen
lang: Finnish
word: jako
lang: French
word: ségrégation
lang: French
word: séparation
lang: German
word: Trennung
lang: Indonesian
word: segregasi
lang: Malay
word: pengasingan
lang: Malay
word: pemisahan
lang: Malay
word: segregasi
lang: Māori
word: whakatāuketanga
lang: Māori
word: tāuketanga
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kjønnsdeling
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: kjønnsdeling
lang: Persian
word: تفکیک
roman: tafkik
lang: Persian
word: جداسازی
roman: jodâ-sâzi
lang: Portuguese
word: segregação
lang: Russian
word: отделе́ние
roman: otdelénije
lang: Russian
word: разделе́ние
roman: razdelénije
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: dealachadh
lang: Spanish
word: segregación
lang: Swedish
word: segregation
lang: Turkish
word: ayırma
lang: Bulgarian
word: сегрегация
roman: segregacija
lang: Finnish
word: rotuerottelu
lang: Georgian
word: სეგრეგაცია
roman: segregacia
lang: German
word: Rassentrennung
lang: German
word: Geschlechtertrennung
lang: Malay
word: pengasingan
lang: Malay
word: pemisahan
lang: Malay
word: pemencilan
lang: Malay
word: pemulauan
lang: Portuguese
word: segregação
lang: Russian
word: сегрега́ция
roman: segregácija
lang: Tok Pisin
word: apatet
lang: Turkish
word: ayrımcılık
lang: Turkish
word: ırk ayrımı
lang: Ukrainian
word: сегрега́ція
roman: sehrehácija
lang: Danish
word: segregation
lang: German
word: Rassentrennung
lang: German
word: Geschlechtertrennung
lang: Malay
word: pengasingan
lang: Malay
word: pemisahan
lang: Malay
word: pemencilan
lang: Malay
word: pemulauan
lang: Portuguese
word: segregação
lang: Russian
word: сегрега́ция
roman: segregácija
lang: Swedish
word: segregation
lang: Tok Pisin
word: apatet
lang: Turkish
word: cinsiyet ayrımcılığı
lang: Turkish
word: kadın erkek ayrımcılığı
lang: Ukrainian
word: сегрега́ція
roman: sehrehácija