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segregation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /sɛɡɹəˈɡeɪ̯ʃən/

Etymology

1555. From Latin segregatio. Morphologically segregate + -ion.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of setting apart and organizing things based upon their characteristics.
2. (countable, uncountable) 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:
3. (countable, uncountable) The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
4. (countable, uncountable) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
5. (countable, qualifier:public policy, uncountable) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
6. (countable, uncountable) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
7. (countable, uncountable) The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis
8. (countable, uncountable) 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:
9. (countable, uncountable) The separation of a subset of prisoners from the general prison population, possibly solitary confinement.

Forms

Antonyms

desegregation

Deriveds

administrative segregation · ultrasegregationist · segregationism · cosegregation · hypersegregation · interface segregation principle · microsegregation · segregationless · antisegregation · segregation distorter · missegregation · segregational · macrosegregation · segregationist · postsegregation · resegregation · nonsegregation · malsegregation

Relateds

segregate · segregative · segregator

Synonyms

Jim Crow law · apartheid · seg

Translations (64)

ms pengasingan (sociology — see also apartheid) · uk сегрега́ція (mineralogy) · ms segregasi (mineralogy) · ru разделе́ние (setting apart or separation) · ms segregasi (biology) · uk сегрега́ція (sociology — see also apartheid) · tpi apatet (politics, public policy — see also apartheid) · ru сегрега́ция (sociology — see also apartheid) · fa تفکیک (setting apart or separation) · fa تفکیک (biology) · de Geschlechtertrennung (politics, public policy — see also apartheid) · fa جدایی (biology) · tr ayrımcılık (politics, public policy — see also apartheid) · pt segregação (politics, public policy — see also apartheid) · sv segregation (sociology — see also apartheid) · de Rassentrennung (politics, public policy — see also apartheid) · tr cinsiyet ayrımcılığı (sociology — see also apartheid) · tr ırk ayrımı (politics, public policy — see also apartheid) · fi jako (setting apart or separation) · ms segregasi (setting apart or separation) · mi tāuketanga (setting apart or separation) · bg изолиране (setting apart or separation) · fi jaottelu (setting apart or separation) · gd dealachadh (setting apart or separation) · pt segregação (sociology — see also apartheid) · ru сегрега́ция (politics, public policy — see also apartheid) · et eraldamine (setting apart or separation) · uk сегрега́ція (politics, public policy — see also apartheid) · bg сегрегация (politics, public policy — see also apartheid) · fa جداسازی (setting apart or separation) · ms pengasingan (setting apart or separation) · de Geschlechtertrennung (sociology — see also apartheid) · fr ségrégation (setting apart or separation) · ms pemisahan (setting apart or separation) · fi erottelu (setting apart or separation) · es segregación (setting apart or separation) · bg разделяне (setting apart or separation) · ms pemencilan (sociology — see also apartheid) · tpi apatet (sociology — see also apartheid) · da segregation (sociology — see also apartheid) · ca segregació (setting apart or separation) · ka სეგრეგაცია (politics, public policy — see also apartheid) · tr ayırma (setting apart or separation) · nb kjønnsdeling (setting apart or separation) · ms pemisahan (politics, public policy — see also apartheid) · ms pemencilan (politics, public policy — see also apartheid) · de Trennung (setting apart or separation) · ru отделе́ние (setting apart or separation) · nn kjønnsdeling (setting apart or separation) · ms pemulauan (politics, public policy — see also apartheid) · tr kadın erkek ayrımcılığı (sociology — see also apartheid) · fi rotuerottelu (politics, public policy — see also apartheid) · sv segregation (setting apart or separation) · de Rassentrennung (sociology — see also apartheid) · id segregasi (setting apart or separation) · bg отделяне (setting apart or separation) · ms pemulauan (sociology — see also apartheid) · fr séparation (setting apart or separation) · fi jakaantuminen (setting apart or separation) · pt segregação (setting apart or separation) · fi jaotteleminen (setting apart or separation) · ms pemisahan (sociology — see also apartheid) · mi whakatāuketanga (setting apart or separation) · ms pengasingan (politics, public policy — see also apartheid)