sequestration

[see-kwes-trey-shuhn, si-kwes-]

noun

1. removal or separation; banishment or exile.

2. a withdrawal into seclusion; retirement.

3. segregation from others; isolation.

   sequestration of jurors during a trial.

4. Law.

   1. the sequestering of property.

   2. confiscation or seizure.

5. Chemistry.,  the combining of metallic ions with a suitable reagent into a stable, soluble complex in order to prevent the ions from combining with a substance with which they would otherwise have formed an insoluble precipitate, from causing interference in a particular reaction, or from acting as undesirable catalysts.

6. the trapping of a chemical in the atmosphere or environment and its isolation in a natural or artificial storage area.

   Carbon sequestration can reduce global warming.

7. 1. the process of implementing an automatic cut in government spending across most departments, agencies, etc..

      efforts to avoid or delay sequestration.

   2. an instance of this.

      An $80 billion sequestration would lead to massive layoffs.

sequestration

/ ˌsiːkwɛˈstreɪʃən /

noun

1. the act of sequestering or state of being sequestered

2. law the sequestering of property

3. chem the effective removal of ions from a solution by coordination with another type of ion or molecule to form complexes that do not have the same chemical behaviour as the original ions See also sequestrant

Other Word Forms

• nonsequestration noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of sequestration¹

1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin sequestrātiōn- (stem of sequestrātiō ), equivalent to sequestrāt ( us ) (past participle of sequestrāre to sequester ) + -iōn- -ion

Example Sentences

California has billed Arbor — and the handful of other similarly aimed projects it’s financed — as a win-win-win: wildfire mitigation, clean energy and carbon sequestration all in one.

From Los Angeles Times

The latest research looked at data stretching back to the 1920s to quantify this carbon storage, also called carbon sequestration.

From BBC

The canceled awards were issued under the Biden administration and primarily focused on carbon capture and sequestration and decarbonization initiatives.

From Los Angeles Times

Department of Energy were issued by the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations under the Biden administration and primarily focused on carbon capture and sequestration and decarbonization initiatives.

From Los Angeles Times

The study's findings are helping piece together the puzzle of wetland carbon sequestration on a global scale.

From Science Daily