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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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
As a matter of course, this separative system precludes all unification of artistic principles and is, therefore, very harmful to the present generation of students.
From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Hofmann, Josef
She had felt the moment of detached fancy as separative, and he had now to soothe her passionate weeping.
From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
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 James, William
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 Akrigg, Mark Bear
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