'Separation' definitions:
Definition of 'separation'
From: WordNet
noun
The state of lacking unity [ant: unification, union]
noun
Coming apart [syn: separation, breakup, detachment]
noun
The distance between things; "fragile items require separation and cushioning" [syn: interval, separation]
noun
Sorting one thing from others; "the separation of wheat from chaff"; "the separation of mail by postal zones"
noun
The social act of separating or parting company; "the separation of church and state"
noun
The space where a division or parting occurs; "he hid in the separation between walls"
noun
The termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)
noun
(law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order) [syn: legal separation, separation]
noun
The act of dividing or disconnecting
Definition of 'Separation'
From: GCIDE
- Separation \Sep`a*ra"tion\, n. [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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'separation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Jim Crow,
- 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
Words containing 'Separation'
- Separability,
- Separable,
- Separableness,
- Separably,
- Separate,
- Separated,
- Separately,
- Separateness,
- Separating,
- Separative,
- Separator,
- separate off,
- separate out,
- Judicial separation,
- Separate estate,
- Separate maintenance,
- Separated flowers,
- Separating funnel,
- grade separation,
- legal separation,
- separation energy,
- water of separation,
- disjointed dislocated separated,
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