segregation
Meaning of segregation
noun
- 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.
- The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
- Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
- (public policy) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
- The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
- The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis
Information about segregation
- It is a name.
- The plural form of segregation is: segregations.
- Languages in which segregation is used:
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Hyphenation of segregation
seg-re-ga-tion
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- segregation is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
segregation synonyms
Meaning separatism:
Meaning sequestration:
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segregation antonyms
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Translation of segregation
- Italian: sequestro, segregazione
- German: Abgrenzung, Trennung, Absonderung
- Spanish: secuestración, segregación, discriminación, marginación
- French: séquestration, ségrégation
Words that rhyme with segregation
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