segregation

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Synonyms: aggregation, desegregation, resegregation, degredation, cosegregation, segregator, segregating, segregations, segregative

Antonyms: aggregation, desegregation, resegregation, degredation, cosegregation, segregator, segregating, segregations, segregative

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Noun

1. The act of setting apart and organizing things based upon their characteristics.
2. {{lb|en|politics}} The [[separation]] of people based upon race, sex, religion, or other identity in institutions.
3. {{lb|en|biology}} The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
4. {{lb|en|mineralogy}} [[separation|Separation]] from a [[mass]], and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through [[cohesive]] or [[adhesive]] attraction or the [[crystallize|crystallizing]] process.
5. {{lb|en|politics|[[public policy]]}} The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
6. {{lb|en|sociology}} The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
7. {{lb|en|genetics}} The separation of a pair of [[chromatid]]s or [[chromosome]]s during [[mitosis]] and [[meiosis]]
8. Separation for [[practical]] reasons, by necessity.
9. The separation of a [[subset]] of [[prisoner]]s from the general prison population, possibly [[solitary confinement]].

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