separation
an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
a place, line, or point of parting.
a gap, hole, rent, or the like.
something that separates or divides.
Law.
cessation of conjugal cohabitation, as by mutual consent.
Aerospace. the time or act of releasing a burned-out stage of a rocket or missile from the remainder.
Photography. separation negative.
Origin of separation
1Other words from separation
- non·sep·a·ra·tion, noun
- pre·sep·a·ra·tion, noun
- re·sep·a·ra·tion, noun
Words Nearby separation
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How to use separation in a sentence
Instead, it spoke to the universe’s separation into kingdoms of independent sizes, a perspective that guides many corners of physics today.
How Mathematical ‘Hocus-Pocus’ Saved Particle Physics | Charlie Wood | September 17, 2020 | Quanta MagazineHarry ranked dead last in separation last season among all qualifying NFL WRs.
We Knew A Football Team Would Win In Week 1. But Maybe Not ‘Football Team.’ | Sara Ziegler (sara.ziegler@fivethirtyeight.com) | September 14, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightIn addition to the labeling requirements, there is the issue of advertisers being virtually unable to verify whether creative separation was maintained for their streaming ads.
One possible effect of the changes could be an even wider separation between the biggest and smallest companies in the mobile gaming ecosystem, which is the largest category of paid apps.
‘Speeding up market consolidation’: Apple’s privacy changes expected to spark wave of gaming and ad tech M&A | Lara O'Reilly | September 3, 2020 | DigidayIn her separation from Bezos, Scott retained 25% of the couple’s stock in Amazon, or about a 4% stake in the entire company.
MacKenzie Scott is now the wealthiest woman in the world | ehinchliffe | September 2, 2020 | Fortune
He advocates a secular regime with a total separation of religion form the government.
Behind Bars for the Holidays: 11 Political Prisoners We Want to See Free In 2015 | Movements.Org | December 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEnter Americans United for separation of Church and State, which threatened to sue.
But the picture is torn in half by the geographic separation of the friezes.
Britain Has Lost Its Marbles: Elgin Loan Will Appease Putin | Geoffrey Robertson | December 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEven in the painful separation of child and parent, there was humour.
The Rancid Ballad of Johnny Rotten: His Memoir Seethes With Anger—And Charm | Legs McNeil | November 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut the second thing is the way this city has changed in recent years, the intensification of the separation.
These differences of interests will lead to disputes, ill blood, and finally to separation.
Wharton left Vienna, the morning after his separation from Louis in the garden of the chateau.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterPunch went out and wept bitterly with Judy, into whose fair head he had driven some ideas of the meaning of separation.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingThe clear, straw-colored fluid which is left after separation of the coagulum is called blood-serum.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddBut also it was an inarticulate yearning to find that state of safety where he and she dwelt secure from separation—in the 'sea.'
The Wave | Algernon Blackwood
British Dictionary definitions for separation
/ (ˌsɛpəˈreɪʃən) /
the act of separating or state of being separated
the place or line where a separation is made
a gap that separates
family law the cessation of cohabitation between a man and wife, either by mutual agreement or under a decree of a court: Compare judicial separation, divorce
the act of jettisoning a burnt-out stage of a multistage rocket
the instant at which such a stage is jettisoned
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