segregation
Signification (Anglais)
- (countable, uncountable) The act of setting apart and organizing things based upon their characteristics.
- (countable, uncountable) The separation of people based upon race, sex, religion, or other identity in institutions.
- (countable, uncountable) The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
- (countable, uncountable) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
- (countable, uncountable) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
- (countable, uncountable) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
- (countable, uncountable) The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis
- (countable, uncountable) Separation for practical reasons, by necessity.
Concepts
Synonymes
dephlegmation
fractional condensation
racial segregation
color line
aliquation
compart
eductino
colour line
gravity segregation
segregation constant
deflegmation
Traductions
Fréquence
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/sɛɡɹəˈɡeɪ̯ʃən/
Étymologie (Anglais)
1555. From Latin segregatio. Morphologically segregate + -ion.
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