segregation

plural segregations

1. countableuncountableThe act of setting apart and organizing things based upon their characteristics.
2. countableuncountablegovernmentThe separation of people based upon race, sex, religion, or other identity in institutions.

   While in the past 100 years women attained suffrage, segregation was ended, and civil rights were established that protected minorities, the century-old stigma toward Oniontown has remained remarkably intact.

   2012 January 23, Aaron Lake Smith, “Peeling Oniontown”, in VICE, archived from the original on 02 May 2025

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   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

3. countableuncountablebiologyThe setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
4. countableuncountablechemistrySeparation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
5. countableuncountablepublic policygovernmentThe separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
6. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
7. countableuncountablebiologyThe separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis
8. countableuncountableSeparation 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

9. countableuncountableThe separation of a subset of prisoners from the general prison population, possibly solitary confinement.

   Synonyms: seg