separative
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of separative
1585–95; < Late Latin sēparātīvus, equivalent to Latin sēparāt ( us ) separate + -īvus -ive
Example Sentences
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The price of enrichment has soared from $65 per separative work unit in February 2022—before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—to $181 an SWU today, according to data from research firm UxC.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
He said that the West wanted to limit Iran’s enrichment capacity to “10,000 separative work units, which is equivalent to 10,000 centrifuges of the older type that we already have.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2014
Philo struggled against the separative and exclusive tendency which characterized a section of his race.
From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich
With the exception of muter, these readings could have been recovered by conjecture; given the separative interpolation at iii 44, F differs surprisingly little from the other manuscripts.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg
The inmate of the penitentiary shows by his grumbling that he is still in the stage of abstraction and of separative thought.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
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