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jaotteleminen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • 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.

Senses

jaotteleminen is used for these senses in English:

  • 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.

segregation — full definition

  1. noun The enforced separation of people into different groups, especially by race, and the denial of equal treatment that goes with it.
  2. noun The act of keeping things or people apart and organized into separate groups.
  3. noun In genetics, the process by which paired versions of a gene separate so each parent passes on only one copy to their offspring.

separation — full definition

  1. noun The act or state of two or more things or people being kept or held apart.
  2. noun A period during which a married couple lives apart, often before a divorce.

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