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erottelu — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • divorce noun The legal ending of a marriage.
  • resolution noun A firm decision to do or not do something.
  • segregation noun The enforced separation of people into different groups, especially by race, and the denial of equal treatment that goes with it.
  • separation noun The act or state of two or more things or people being kept or held apart.
  • separatism noun A theory or doctrine which supports a state of separation between organizations, institutions, or other societal groups (e.g. between church and state) or between different political jurisdictions (e.g. a country and its former colony).

Senses

erottelu is used for these senses in English:

  • divorce A separation of connected things.
  • resolution (sciences) The separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc).
  • segregation (mineralogy) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
  • separation The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
  • separatism The practice of treating members of different societal groups in a politically, legally, or economically different manner.

divorce — full definition

  1. noun The legal ending of a marriage.
  2. verb To legally end one's marriage.
  3. verb To separate two things that were previously connected.

resolution — full definition

  1. noun A firm decision to do or not do something.
  2. noun A formal decision or statement agreed on by a group, committee, or assembly.
  3. noun The level of detail an image or screen can show, often measured in pixels.
  4. noun The satisfying settling of a conflict, problem, or story.

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