segregation
noun
the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group.
segregations
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pluralof segregation.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The social segregations of “District 9” become filters when we leave the theater that allow us to see our own world in sharper focus.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2016
Through Mendelian combinations and segregations it would by cross-breeding be spread and gradually introduced into more and more strains of the general population.
From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer
The same diagram equally well represents the pairings and segregations of chromosomes.
From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer
Certain minerals, such as magnetite, ilmenite, spinel, corundum, etc., are often found as primary segregations within the mass of igneous rock.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
And these segregations, based primarily on a difference in moral ideas and pursuits and ideals, will probably round off and complete themselves at last as distinct and separate cultures.
From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
