What does separation mean?

Definitions for separation
ˌsɛp əˈreɪ ʃənsep·a·ra·tion

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word separation.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. separationnoun

    the state of lacking unity

  2. separation, breakup, detachmentnoun

    coming apart

  3. interval, separationnoun

    the distance between things

    "fragile items require separation and cushioning"

  4. separationnoun

    sorting one thing from others

    "the separation of wheat from chaff"; "the separation of mail by postal zones"

  5. separationnoun

    the social act of separating or parting company

    "the separation of church and state"

  6. separationnoun

    the space where a division or parting occurs

    "he hid in the separation between walls"

  7. separationnoun

    the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)

  8. legal separation, separationnoun

    (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)

  9. separationnoun

    the act of dividing or disconnecting

Wiktionary

  1. separationnoun

    The act of separating or the condition of being separated.

  2. separationnoun

    The place at which a division occurs.

  3. separationnoun

    An interval, gap or space that separates things.

  4. separationnoun

    An agreement terminating a relationship between husband and wife, but short of a divorce.

  5. Etymology: Attested in the 15th Century ; from separation, from separationem.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Separationnoun

    Etymology: separatio, Lat. separation, Fr. from separate.

    They have a dark opinion, that the soul doth live after the separation from the body. George Abbot.

    Any part of our bodies, vitally united to that which is conscious in us, makes a part of ourselves; but upon separation from the vital union, by which that consciousness is communicated, that which a moment since was part of ourselves, is now no more so. John Locke.

    As the confusion of tongues was a mark of separation, so the being of one language was a mark of union. Francis Bacon.

    A fifteenth part of silver, incorporate with gold, will not be recovered by any matter of separation, unless you put a greater quantity of silver, which is the last refuge in separations. Francis Bacon.

    Did you not hear
    A buzzing of a separation
    Between the king and Cath’rine? William Shakespeare.

ChatGPT

  1. separation

    Separation refers to the act or process of dividing, disconnecting, detaching, segregating, or differentiating two or more entities, people, objects, or concepts from each other. It can also refer to the state of being removed or apart from something else. This term is employed across various disciplines with different specific meanings, such as in science, law, mathematics, and sociology.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Separationnoun

    the act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate

  2. Separationnoun

    chemical analysis

  3. Separationnoun

    divorce

  4. Separationnoun

    the operation of removing water from steam

  5. Etymology: [L. separatio: cf. F. sparation.]

Wikidata

  1. Separation

    Separation is an EP by Halou.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'separation' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4687

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'separation' in Nouns Frequency: #1886

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Anagrams for separation »

  1. antioperas

  2. asperation

  3. anisoptera

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of separation in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of separation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of separation in a Sentence

  1. Nicole Schwegman:

    The Department does not manipulate military recruiting data, as part of achieving their End-strength objectives, the Services set their own recruitment goals and will make adjustment to those goals based upon Service retention rates, separation rates, and attrition.

  2. Philip Wallach:

    For all the sort of ways that [ Chief Justice John Roberts ] has alienated some of the conservative movement legal folks through some of his rulings, he has seemed interested in disciplining bureaucratic agencies in a number of ways, and he's very interested in the separation of powers.

  3. Damon Jacobs:

    We are taught in this culture to react to perceptions of scarcity with suspicion and attack, instead of practicing the idea of' compersion', or joy in someone else's joy, we are conditioned to respond to joy and success with,' You shouldn't feel good when I don't feel good.' This sets up a nasty cycle of blame-attack-separation, which ultimately fuels our epidemic of alienation and loneliness.

  4. Ofelia Calderon:

    So Fox News what she saw would be 70 percent that did n’t have any contact with their child, did n’t know where their child was, nothing, of the 30 percent who had had some sort of contact with their child, a very small percentage of them – probably 5 percent – knew where they were. ’ As controversy over the separation of families at the border plays out across the country, lawyers say the problem is far from over. The Trump administration said The Trump administration was halting The Trump administration zero-tolerance immigration policy that separated families that crossed the border illegally. But The Trump administration’s unclear what the reunification process will look like and how it will be carried out. Ofelia Calderon said she had spoken to 50 to 60 people at the Port Isabel detention center in Los Fresnos, Texas, which will be a primary shelter for reunifications. But, she said, she is not sure if that has started happening.

  5. Masrour Barzani:

    Federation hasn't worked, so it has to be either confederation or full separation, if we have three confederated states, we will have equal three capitals, so one is not above the other.

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