isolation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
computing
databases
diplomacy
engineering
government
human-sciences
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
psychology
sciences
Etymology: First attested in 1800. From French isolation, from isolé, placed on an island (thus away from other people). Equivalent to isolate + -ion.
Base: isolate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: isolations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: She lived her final year in complete isolation, not wanting to see anybody.
gloss: The act of isolating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As of 1975, diplomatic ostracism is still imposed by the Organization of American States (OAS). The inter-American community also exercises a trade embargo against Cuba. But even within this context of hemispheric isolation, Havana’s diplomacy is strikingly contradictory.
Israel could offer to ease North Korea’s isolation with diplomatic recognition, […] ¶ […] But Washington’s strategy of increasing North Korean isolation left no room for back-channel talks with Tel Aviv, […]
It [Europe] now pressed Washington to begin direct talks with Tehran, but Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, Rice’s point man on Iran, still stressed that diplomatic isolation of Iran—and not diplomatic engagement—was the only acceptable approach for dealing with the Iranian nuclear challenge.
gloss: The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Upon returning from the field, he went into isolation for a week so as not to infect anyone with potential diseases.
gloss: A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: insulate
insulation
isolate
isolatedness
Derived words: base isolation
coisolation
deisolation
immunoisolation
in isolation
isolational
isolationary
isolationism
isolationist
isolationistic
isolation pay
isolation play
isolation tank
isolation transformer
managed isolation
matrix isolation
microisolation
optoisolation
postisolation
preisolation
reduced isolation
reisolation
self-isolation
sound isolation
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: отде́ляне
roman: otdéljane
lang: Bulgarian
word: изоли́ране
roman: izolírane
lang: Finnish
word: eristäminen
lang: Greek
word: απονόνωση
roman: aponónosi
lang: Kazakh
word: оқшаулама
roman: oqşaulama
lang: Malay
word: pengasingan
lang: Portuguese
word: isolamento
lang: Russian
word: изоля́ция
roman: izoljácija