segregation
/sɛɡɹəˈɡeɪ̯ʃən/ noun C1- The act of setting apart and organizing things based upon their characteristics.
- The separation of people based upon race, sex, religion, or other identity in institutions.
- The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
- Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
- The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
- The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
- The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis
- Separation for practical reasons, by necessity.
Plural segregations
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The alternative was a dreadful one—segregation for life among strangers with never a hope of release.
There was the explanation that he was in hiding for a crime, or that he was mad and that they wished to avoid an asylum, or that he had some disease which caused his segregation.
His people would be placed in a very dreadful position, since they would desire to save him from segregation.
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