séparation — meaning in English
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English meaning
- partition noun A wall or screen that divides a room or space into separate sections.
- 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
séparation 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.
partition — full definition
- noun A wall or screen that divides a room or space into separate sections.
- noun The division of a country or territory into separate, independently governed parts.
- noun A separately formatted section of a computer's hard drive.
- verb To divide something into separate parts or sections.
segregation — full definition
- noun The enforced separation of people into different groups, especially by race, and the denial of equal treatment that goes with it.
- noun The act of keeping things or people apart and organized into separate groups.
- noun In genetics, the process by which paired versions of a gene separate so each parent passes on only one copy to their offspring.