English Explanatory Dictionary

segregation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of setting apart and organizing things based upon their characteristics.
  2. The separation of people based upon race, sex, religion, or other identity in institutions.
  3. The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
  4. Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
  5. The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
  6. The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
  7. The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis
  8. Separation for practical reasons, by necessity.
  9. The separation of a subset of prisoners from the general prison population, possibly solitary confinement.

Pronunciation

/sɛɡɹəˈɡeɪ̯ʃən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-segregation.wav

Word forms

segregation segregations

Etymology

1555. From Latin segregatio. Morphologically segregate + -ion.

Synonyms

apartheid Jim Crow law seg

Antonyms

desegregation

Related words

segregate segregative segregator

Derived words

administrative segregation antisegregation cosegregation hypersegregation interface segregation principle macrosegregation malsegregation microsegregation missegregation nonsegregation postsegregation resegregation segregational segregation distorter segregationism segregationist segregationless ultrasegregationist

Translations

Bulgarian: отделяне Bulgarian: разделяне Bulgarian: изолиране Bulgarian: сегрегация Catalan: segregació Estonian: eraldamine Finnish: erottelu Finnish: jakaantuminen Finnish: jaottelu Finnish: jaotteleminen Finnish: jako Finnish: rotuerottelu French: ségrégation French: séparation German: Trennung German: Rassentrennung German: Geschlechtertrennung Indonesian: segregasi Malay: pengasingan Malay: pemisahan Malay: segregasi Malay: pemencilan Malay: pemulauan Māori: whakatāuketanga Māori: tāuketanga Norwegian Bokmål: kjønnsdeling Norwegian Nynorsk: kjønnsdeling Persian: تفکیک Persian: جداسازی Portuguese: segregação Russian: отделе́ние Russian: разделе́ние Russian: сегрега́ция Scottish Gaelic: dealachadh Spanish: segregación Swedish: segregation Turkish: ayırma Turkish: ayrımcılık Turkish: ırk ayrımı Turkish: cinsiyet ayrımcılığı Turkish: kadın erkek ayrımcılığı Georgian: სეგრეგაცია Tok Pisin: apatet Ukrainian: сегрега́ція Danish: segregation
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