Definition of Segregation

1. Noun. (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes.

Category relationships: Genetic Science, Genetics
Group relationships: Meiosis, Miosis, Reduction Division
Generic synonyms: Biological Process, Organic Process

2. Noun. A social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups.

3. Noun. The act of segregating or sequestering. "Sequestration of the jury"
Exact synonyms: Sequestration
Generic synonyms: Separation
Antonyms: Integration
Derivative terms: Segregate, Segregate, Segregationist, Sequester

Definition of Segregation

1. n. The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.

Definition of Segregation

1. Noun. The setting apart or separation of things or people, as a natural process, a manner of organizing people the may be voluntary or enforced by law. ¹

2. Noun. (biology) The Mendelian Law of Segregation related to genetic transmission or geographical segregation of various species. ¹

3. Noun. (minerology) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process. ¹

4. Noun. (politics public policy) Passing of laws to separate people geographically, residentially, racially, religiously or by sex. Racial segregation in the United States and South Africa being well known examples. Also, the term is used in various policies that "segregate" things like financial instruments and transportation routes and trails. ¹

5. Noun. (sociology) People separating geographically, residentially, racially, religiously or by sex based on happenstance, voluntary choice or cultural attitudes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Segregation

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Medical Definition of Segregation

1. 1. The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting. 2. Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process. Origin: L. Segregatio: cf. F. Segregation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Segregation

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Literary usage of Segregation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Evolution, racial and habitudinal by John Thomas Gulick (1905)
"APPENDIX I—DIVERGENT EVOLUTION. supplemental to the laws of segregation already discussed, simply reinforcing by artificial barriers the segregations that ..."

2. Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men by Edwin Grant Conklin (1922)
"The Principle of Segregation.—The individuality of inheritance units, and their segregation or separation in the sex cells and recombination in the zygote ..."

3. Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men by Edwin Grant Conklin (1922)
"The Principle of Segregation.—The individuality of inheritance units, and their segregation or separation in the sex cells and recombination in the zygote ..."

4. Evolution, Racial and Habitudinal by John Thomas Gulick (1905)
"[A small portion of " Divergent Evolution through Cumulative Segregation."]f Reflexive segregation is segregation arising from the relations in which the ..."

5. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1903)
"A Consideration of Igneous Rocks and their Segregation or Differentiation as Related to the ... THE Segregation OR DIFFERENTIATION OF IGNEOUS ROCKS, . ..."

6. The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot by Chicago Commission on Race Relations (1922)
"Voluntary segregation is a step, consciously or unconsciously taken, ... It seems to me that segregation and racial solidarity differ in that the latter is ..."

7. Ill-Equipped: U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness by Sasha Abramsky (2003)
"When [the mentally ill are] in segregation, if they're not appropriately engaged they continue exhibiting the behaviors that got them there in the first ..."

8. The Voice of the Negro 1919 by Robert Thomas Kerlin (1920)
"Segregation in places of residence, segregation in railway coaches, segregation in theaters, schools, and churches, segregation anywhere, ..."

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