isolation
Meaning
- (uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
- (countable, uncountable) The act of isolating.
- (countable, uncountable) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
- (countable, uncountable) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
- (countable, uncountable) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
- (countable, uncountable) A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
- (countable, uncountable) A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.
Synonyms
closing off
breaking off relations
Translations
isolement
Isolierung
isolamento
isolamento
aislamiento
απομόνωση
isolering
aïllament
عزلFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/
Etymology
First attested in 1800. From French isolation, from isolé, placed on an island (thus away from other people). Equivalent to isolate + -ion.
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