 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
separation
noun
1: the act of dividing or disconnecting
2: coming apart [syn: {breakup}, {detachment}]
3: the state of lacking unity [ant: {union}]
4: the distance between things; "fragile items require
separation and cushioning" [syn: {interval}]
5: sorting one thing from others; "the separation of wheat from
chaff"; "the separation of mail by postal zones"
6: the social act of separating or parting company; "the
separation of church and state"
7: the space where a division or parting occurs; "he hid in the
separation between walls"
8: termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)
9: (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either
by mutual agreement or under a court order) [syn: {legal
separation}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Separation \Sep'a*ra"tion\, noun [L. separatio: cf. F.
s['e]paration.]
The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or
separate. Specifically:
(a) Chemical analysis.
(b) Divorce.
(c) (Steam Boilers) The operation of removing water from
steam.
{Judicial separation} (Law), a form of divorce; a separation
of man and wife which has the effect of making each a
single person for all legal purposes but without ability
to contract a new marriage. --Mozley & W.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
255 Moby Thesaurus words for "separation":
Jim Crow, aberration, aesthetic distance, alien, alienation,
alteration, analysis, analyzation, anatomization, anatomizing,
anatomy, annulment, apartheid, apartness, assay, assaying,
atomization, barrier, bolting, brattice, breach,
breach of friendship, break, breakdown, breaking down, breaking up,
breakup, broken home, broken marriage, buffer, buffer state,
bulkhead, bumper, centrifugence, change, clarification, clearance,
cleavage, cleft, cloison, colature, collision mat, color bar,
compass, contradistinction, cordon, cordon sanitaire,
cordoning off, cushion, deactivation, decentralization,
decree of nullity, deep space, demarcation, demobilization,
deployment, depths of space, destructive distillation,
desynonymization, detachment, deviation, diaphragm, diaspora,
dichotomy, differencing, differentiation, disaffection,
disassociation, disbandment, disconnection, discrimination,
disequalization, disfavor, disintegration, disjointedness,
disjunction, dismemberment, dismissal, disorganization, dispersal,
dispersion, disruption, dissection, dissepiment, dissociation,
dissolution, dissolution of marriage, distance, distillation,
distinction, distinctiveness, distinguishment, disunion, disunity,
divarication, divergence, divergency, diversification, dividedness,
dividing line, dividing wall, division, divorce, divorcement,
docimasy, edulcoration, elution, elutriation, essentialization,
estrangement, ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, extent, extraction,
falling-out, fanning, fanning out, farness, fender, filtering,
filtration, fission, foreigner, fracture, fracturing,
fragmentation, grasswidowhood, gravimetric analysis, hairsplitting,
individualization, individuation, infinity, insularity, insulation,
interlocutory decree, interseptum, isolation, isolationism,
keeping apart, know-nothingism, leaching, leeway, length,
light-years, lixiviation, margin, mat, microscopic distinction,
midriff, midsection, mileage, modification, narrowness,
nice distinction, nuance, open rupture, out-group, outcast,
outsider, pad, panel, paries, parochialism, parsecs,
particularization, parting, partition, party wall, percolation,
persona non grata, personalization, perspective, piece, privacy,
privatism, privatization, property line, proximate analysis,
purification, quantitative analysis, quarantine, quarantine flag,
race hatred, racial segregation, range, reach,
recall of ambassadors, recess, reclusion, reduction to elements,
refinement, release, remoteness, resolution, retirement, retreat,
riddling, rift, rupture, rustication, sanitary cordon, schism,
scission, screening, seclusion, secrecy, segmentation, segregation,
semimicroanalysis, separate maintenance, separateness, separatism,
septulum, septum, sequestration, severalization, severance,
shade of difference, shattering, shedding, shock pad, sieving,
sifting, snobbishness, space, span, specialization,
spiritualization, splaying, splendid isolation, split, split-up,
splitting, spread, spreading, spreading out, straining, stranger,
stretch, stride, subdivision, sublimation, subtle distinction,
tightness, trichoschistism, trichotomy, variation, wall, way, ways,
winnowing, withdrawal, xenophobia, yellow flag, yellow jack
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