segregation

noun segregations

1. countable, uncountable The act of setting apart and organizing things based upon their characteristics.
2. countable, uncountable The separation of people based upon race, sex, religion, or other identity in institutions. 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 privat
3. countable, uncountable The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
4. countable, uncountable Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
5. countable, uncountable The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
6. countable, uncountable The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
7. countable, uncountable The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis
8. countable, uncountable Separation for practical reasons, by necessity. 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.
9. countable, uncountable The separation of a subset of prisoners from the general prison population, possibly solitary confinement.

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Similar: apartheid, Jim Crow law · Opposite: desegregation