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Segregation

ˌsɛɡrɪˈɡeɪʃn

Segregation definitions

noun

Inflections:

segregation segregations

the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others

"a model that perpetuates the segregation of older people"

Synonyms:
separation setting apart keeping apart sorting out
- the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment
  
  "an official policy of racial segregation"
the separation of pairs of alleles at meiosis and their independent transmission via separate gametes