segregation
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See also: ségrégation
Etymology
1555.[1] From Latin segregatio. Morphologically segregate + -ion
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛɡɹəˈɡeɪ̯ʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
segregation (countable and uncountable, plural segregations)
- The setting apart or separation of things or people, as a natural process, a manner of organizing people that may be voluntary or enforced by law.
- 1982 December 18, Siong-huat Chua, Sam Sasha, Philip Fung, “Hong Kong And The Emergence Of An Asian Gay Consciousness”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 22, page 9:
- The fact that one is gay or one's brother is gay […] — this has less influence on the average HK person's attention or attitude than how he or she finds a job, the way he lives and the way he eats, which is like New York or oter large cities. There tends to be a segregation between a person's private life and his job or other affairs. It does not mean that they are liberal, just that city life fosters this individualism.
- (biology) The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
- (mineralogy) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
- (politics, public policy) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
- (sociology) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
- (genetics) The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
- administrative segregation
- antisegregation
- cosegregation
- hypersegregation
- interface segregation principle
- macrosegregation
- malsegregation
- microsegregation
- missegregation
- nonsegregation
- postsegregation
- racial segregation
- resegregation
- segregational
- segregation distorter
- segregationism
- segregationist
- segregationless
- ultrasegregationist
Related terms
Translations
setting apart or separation
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mineralogy
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politics, public policy — see also apartheid
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sociology — see also apartheid
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References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
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