Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of segregating or the condition of being segregated.
- noun The policy or practice of separating people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups, as in schools, housing, and public or commercial facilities, especially as a form of discrimination.
- noun Genetics The separation of paired alleles or homologous chromosomes, especially during meiosis, so that the members of each pair appear in different gametes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The separation of the descendants of Mendelian hybrids into dominants, recessives, and hybrids, in conformity to a numerical law.
- noun The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting; a dispersion.
- noun In crystallography, separation from a mass and gathering about centers through crystallization.
- noun In geology and mining, a separating out from a rock of a band or seam, or a nodular mass of some kind of mineral or metalliferous matter, differing more or less in texture or in composition or in both respects from the material in which it is inclosed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.
- noun (Geol.) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- 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. - noun biology The Mendelian Law of Segregation related to genetic transmission or geographical segregation of various species.
- noun mineralogy
Separation from amass , and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand throughcohesive oradhesive attraction or thecrystallizing process. - noun politics, public policy Passing of laws to separate people geographically, residentially, racially, religiously or by sex. Racial segregation in the United States and South Africa being well known examples. Also, the term is used in various policies that "segregate" things like financial instruments and transportation routes and trails.
- noun sociology People separating geographically, residentially, racially, religiously or by sex based on happenstance, voluntary choice or cultural attitudes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes
- noun a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
- noun the act of segregating or sequestering
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hey Dmansmartman.- if you're going to assume bigotry perhaps you could at the very least learn how to spell the word segregation properly.
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Notice that I am not claiming (despite sources such as the one I linked because of its handy presentation of other data) that the problem is "segregation" -- i.e. that poor black kids are done in by going to school with people the same color as them, a tragic distortion of the meaning and significance of the word segregation in our times which I deplore.
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Notice that I am not claiming (despite sources such as the one I linked because of its handy presentation of other data) that the problem is "segregation" -- i.e. that poor black kids are done in by going to school with people the same color as them, a tragic distortion of the meaning and significance of the word segregation in our times which I deplore.
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This segregation is a sharp contrast to other jurisdictions.
The Canada Pension Promise: Maintaining Trust with Canadians 2004
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"That's all they have done with this arrangement, removed the word 'segregation' while in actuality we remain segregated and subjected to literally the same policy that seeks to strip us of our faith, or dignity and our will to resist tyrants acting as public servants," said Roberto Chavez, one of the inmates who chose to return to segregation rather than comply with the program.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Gee, a whole 46 years of mandated equality; that 350 years of slavery and segregation is all better.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism, Federalism, and Racism 2010
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Gee, a whole 46 years of mandated equality; that 350 years of slavery and segregation is all better.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism, Federalism, and Racism 2010
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Come to find out, my brother was in segregation for 30 days because he had tried to commit suicide.
Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism: Betty Anne Waters' Conviction Kept Her Going Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism 2010
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Additional concerns, which often compound the trauma of a sexual assault, include placement in long-term segregation or "protective custody"; inadequate medical care; and, in the case of transgender detainees, being housed with detainees of a gender with which they do not identify.
End ICE Abuse: Trauma Compounded: The Plight of LGBT Immigration Detainees End ICE Abuse 2011
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Mark Field: Gee, a whole 46 years of mandated equality; that 350 years of slavery and segregation is all better.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism, Federalism, and Racism 2010
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