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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Isolated \I"so*la'ted\ ([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]'t[e^]d), adjective Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others.
{Isolated point of a curve}. (Geom.) See {Acnode}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Isolate \I"so*late\ ([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]t or [imac]s"[-o]*l[=a]t; 277), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Isolated} ([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]'t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Isolating} ([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]'t[i^]ng).] [It. isolato, p. p. of isolare to isolate, fr. isola island, L. insula. See 2d {Isle}, and cf. {Insulate}.]
1. To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others; as, to isolate an infected person from others; to isolate the troublemakers in a classroom. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts. --Bp. Warburton.
2. (Elec.) To insulate. See {Insulate}.
3. (Chem.) To separate from all foreign substances; to make pure; to obtain in a free state; as, to isolate the desired product from a reaction mixture. [1913 Webster +PJC]
4. (Microbiol.) To obtain a culture of a microorganism in pure form (from a complex mixture); as, to isolate {Eschericia coli} from a patient's blood. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
isolated
adjective
1: not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "scattered fire"; "a stray bullet grazed his thigh" [syn: {scattered}, {stray}]
2: being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling" [syn: {detached}, {separated}, {set-apart}]
3: marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements; "little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"- Scientific Monthly [syn: {disjunct}]
4: cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard" [syn: {marooned}, {stranded}]
5: under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients" [syn: {quarantined}]
6: remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure village" [syn: {apart(p)}, {obscure}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
164 Moby Thesaurus words for "isolated": abandoned, alien, alienated, alone, aloof, anchoretical, anomalous, anonymous, apart, archipelagian, archipelagic, at rest, calm, cloistered, closet, companionless, cool, cordoned, cordoned off, cut off, deserted, detached, disarticulated, disconnected, discrete, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, dispersed, disrelated, dissociated, disunited, divided, divorced, dwindling, ebbing, estranged, even-tenored, exceptional, excluded, exotic, extraneous, foreign, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, halcyon, hermitical, hidden, homeless, hushed, impassive, in a backwater, incognito, incommensurable, incomparable, independent, individual, inmost, innermost, insular, insulated, interior, intimate, inward, irrelative, island, island-dotted, islanded, islandish, islandlike, islandy, isleted, isolate, kithless, lone, lonely, lonesome, moldering, monastic, other, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outlandish, pacific, particular, peaceable, peaceful, personal, placid, private, privy, quarantined, quiescent, quiet, remote, removed, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, retired, rootless, roped off, scattered, seagirt, sealed off, secluded, secret, segregate, segregated, separate, separated, sequestered, sequestrated, set apart, sheltered, shut off, single, single-handed, singular, smooth, solitary, solo, special, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, stranded, strange, subsiding, tranquil, unabetted, unaccompanied, unaffiliated, unagitated, unaided, unallied, unassisted, unassociated, unattended, unconnected, undisturbed, unescorted, unfrequented, unique, unmoved, unperturbed, unrelatable, unrelated, unruffled, unseconded, unstirring, unsupported, untroubled, unvisited, waning, withdrawn
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
isolated {compact}
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