separative

[sep-er-uh-tiv, -uh-rey-]

adjective

1. tending to separate.

2. causing separation.

separative

/ ˈsɛprə-, ˈsɛpərətɪv /

adjective

1. tending to separate or causing separation

Other Word Forms

• separatively adverb
• separativeness noun
• nonseparative adjective
• unseparative adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of separative¹

1585–95; < Late Latin sēparātīvus, equivalent to Latin sēparāt ( us ) separate + -īvus -ive

Example Sentences

The U.S deployed all of this nuclear weapons know-how—especially the national labs and their mastery of "separative work units" needed to enrich fissile material—to craft a nuclear deal with Iran.

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One of the most notable of these holds that an agreement must enable Iran to ultimately expand its enrichment capacity to 190,000 separative work units.

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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.”

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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.

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All these separative factors were absent in Nova Scotia.

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