segregation
noun/sɛɡɹəˈɡeɪ̯ʃən/
Etymology 1555. From Latin segregatio. Morphologically segregate + -ion.
9 senses
- 1The act of setting apart and organizing things based…
- 2The separation of people based upon race, sex, religion…
- 3The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles…
- 4Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or…
- 5The separation of people (geographically, residentially…
- 6The separation of people (geographically, residentially…
- 7The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes…
- 8Separation for practical reasons, by necessity.
- 9The separation of a subset of prisoners from the general…
The act of setting apart and organizing things based upon their characteristics.
Government, Politics The separation of people based upon race, sex, religion, or other identity in institutions.
- The fact that one is gay or one's brother is gay […] — this has less influence on the average HK person's attention or attitude than how he or she finds a job, the way he lives and the way he eats, which is like New York or oter large cities. There tends to be a segregation between a person's private life and his job or other affairs. It does not mean that they are liberal, just that city life fosters this individualism.1982 December 18, Siong-huat Chua, Sam Sasha, Philip Fung, “Hong Kong And The Emergence Of An Asian Gay Consciousness”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 22, page 9:
Biology, Natural sciences The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
Chemistry, Geography, Geology, Mineralogy, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
Government, Politics The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
Human sciences, Sciences, Social science, Sociology The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
Separation for practical reasons, by necessity.
- It has long been recognised that complete segregation of control of the respective services provided by the two undertakings, and of the power supply, signalling, and tracks relating to each was desirable.1956 July, “New Works on District Line, L.T.”, in Railway Magazine, page 485:
The separation of a subset of prisoners from the general prison population, possibly solitary confinement.
- Synonyms
- apartheid, Jim Crow law
- Antonyms
- desegregation
- Derived terms
- administrative segregation, antisegregation, cosegregation, hypersegregation, interface segregation principle, macrosegregation, malsegregation, microsegregation, missegregation, nonsegregation, postsegregation, resegregation, segregational, segregation distorter, segregationism, segregationist, segregationless, ultrasegregationist
- Related terms
- segregate, segregative, segregator