segregant
8.7
Causing people to be kept apart by rules or places
- adjective
- /ˈsɛɡrɪɡənt/
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segregador
- The school's segregant policies kept students of different backgrounds apart during lunch.
Examples
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His segregant approach to city planning aimed to create distinctly separate communities.
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The researchers focused on segregant behaviors of the species to understand their habitat preferences.
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For Nematoda, where genomes are generally small, a pipeline with a de novo reference assembly and mapping by bulk-segregant analysis is very efficient.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
divisive
vssegregant
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6.8
Making people disagree and split into groups
focuses on causing separation or keeping groups apart rather than hostility
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8.2
Forming small groups that make other people feel unwelcome
applies to separating groups broadly rather than only forming tight groups
9.9
Tending to make a group split into smaller parts
tends to keep groups apart rather than actively breaking them up
Antonyms
How Separating
Surface Forms
segregant positive
Morphology
Etymology
Segregant comes from the parts se- 'apart' and greg- 'group', with greg- once meaning 'flock', so the image is of pulling a group apart. That's why something called segregant tends to divide people or keep groups separate.