separation
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3.2
- noun
- /ˌsɛpəˈreɪʃən/
- The team conducted a thorough separation of recyclable materials from general waste to reduce landfill use.
- separation process
- separation of powers
- physical separation
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Watch on YouTubeSecurities exchange regulations require a separation of three key functions.
- Securities exchange regulations require a separation of three key functions.
- We're going to have to go through this separation of the tech, the high tech and the low tech.
- Unpicked, the grapes have a musky or dusky hue, especially at dusk, although their promise of easy separation from the stem is not to be trusted.
- And we see plants going up now in our own business that have that are ready made for carbon separation and capture.
- And we can make different separation, different distinctions, but we can make one very important distinction between the somatic cells and the germ cells.
- Different membrane components, compartments as you see here in the cell and even different colloidal structures, what we now call phase separations.
Examples
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There are many important questions about values that can be better investigated if such separation is done.
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Late the next day, the institute announced a successful separation.
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I think I'd always try to have some separation to what I did in sport and what I did away from sport.
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Test materials are produced by a number of physical and chemical separation techniques.
Academic text (1991) -
We're going to have to go through this separation of the tech, the high tech and the low tech.
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Securities exchange regulations require a separation of three key functions.
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I want you to contemplate what causes the separation of the two components.
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Each school has an Eco-Team to set up and implement a source separation system.
Academic text (1999) -
The pilot project in Maui shows that source separation of leftover materials during residential construction actually saves money.
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The scientific experiment required a complete separation of the two substances to observe their individual reactions.
Synonyms
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3.6
A separation into parts when something falls apart
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4.3
Dividing something into separate parts, often with a border
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3.4
The act of dividing something into parts or groups
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6.1
Dividing something into separate parts
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4.9
A split into parts along natural lines, for example in rocks or cells
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6.0
Dividing something into parts or groups
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8.0
Dividing something into separate parts to keep things organized
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7.9
Breaking a whole into smaller separate parts
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9.8
The cutting or splitting of something into parts
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9.0
The breaking of a group or society into smaller, competing groups
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9.9
A difference between people, groups, or places
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
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4.9
An official decision by a court or agreement that lets a married couple live apart while still married
- Specialized
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6.1
A place where a road and a railway cross at different levels using a bridge or tunnel
- Specialized
The amount of energy needed to remove a particle, for example an electron or neutron, from an atom
How Divided
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Separation comes from Latin separare ('to put apart') and is related to separate. So separation can mean sorting or dividing things by putting them 'apart' from each other.