Separation Meaning and Definition


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Separation meaning

Word: Separation

How to pronounce: sepəˈreɪʃn

Noun

Definitions:

1. The action or state of moving or being moved apart.

Example sentences: "The damage that might arise from the separation of parents and children"

2. The division of something into constituent or distinct elements.

Example sentences: "Prose structured into short sentences with meaningful separation into paragraphs"

3. Distinction or difference between the signals carried by the two channels of a stereophonic system.

Example sentences: "Use two transmitters for full stereo separation"

4. Short for color separation

5. The generation of a turbulent boundary layer between the surface of a body and a moving fluid, or between two fluids moving at different speeds.

Example sentences: "His work on separation of the boundary layer was summarised in the Von Neumann lecture he gave to the American Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 1980."


Synonyms:

isolation

detachment

disconnection

disunion

compartmentalization

disengagement

decoupling

interdigitation

disunity

dividing

division

schism

partition

partitioning

sorting

divider

separatory

split

divide

divorce

farewell

dismissal

breakup

dissolution

distinction

demarcation

differentiation

segregation

allocation

delamination

stratification

separateness

fragmentation

disassociation

dissociation

colour separation

splitting

cleavage

scission

bifurcation

disjunction

gap

divergence

divergency

interval

spacing

break


Antonyms:

closure

mixing

merger

connection

desegregation

amalgamation


Derivations:

separating

separated

separative

separable

separator

separability

separate

separately


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Separation in Other Languages...

Spanish: Separación

German: Trennung

French: Séparation

Italian: Separazione

Turkish: Ayrılık


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