Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act or process of sequestering.
  • noun The sequestering of property.
  • noun The writ authorizing such sequestering.
  • noun The legal process by which such sequestering is accomplished.
  • noun Chemistry The inhibition or prevention of normal ion behavior by combination with added materials, especially the formation of coordination compounds or chelates of metallic ions.
  • noun The process of removing a chemical from the environment and sequestering it in an organic or physical structure.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of sequestering, or the state of being sequestered or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society.
  • noun Disunion; disjunction; division; rupture.
  • noun In law:
  • noun The separation of a thing in controversy from the possession of those who contend for it.
  • noun The setting apart of the goods and chattels of a deceased person to whom no one was willing to take out administration.
  • noun A writ directed by the Court of Chancery to commissioners or to the sheriff, commanding them or him to enter the lands and seize the goods of the person against whom it is directed.
  • noun The act of taking property from the owner for a time till the rents, issues, and profits satisfy a demand; especially, in ecclesiastical practice, a species of execution for debt in the case of a beneficed clergyman, issued by the bishop of the diocese on the receipt of a writ to that effect, under which the profits of the benefice are paid over to the creditor until his claim is satisfied.
  • noun The gathering of the fruits of a vacant benefice for the use of the next incumbent.
  • noun The seizure of the property of an individual for the use of the state: particularly applied to the seizure by a belligerent power of debts due by its subjects to the enemy.
  • noun The seizing of the estate of an insolvent or a bankrupt, by decree of a competent court, for behoof of the creditors.
  • noun The formation of a sequestrum; the separation of a dead piece of bone (or cartilage) from the living bone (or cartilage) about it.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Civil & Com. Law) The act of separating, or setting aside, a thing in controversy from the possession of both the parties that contend for it, to be delivered to the one adjudged entitled to it. It may be voluntary or involuntary.
  • noun (Chancery) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court.
  • noun (Eccl. Law) A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with.
  • noun (Internat. Law) The seizure of the property of an individual for the use of the state; particularly applied to the seizure, by a belligerent power, of debts due from its subjects to the enemy.
  • noun The state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society.
  • noun obsolete Disunion; disjunction.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The process or act of sequestering.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the action of forming a chelate or other stable compound with an ion or atom or molecule so that it is no longer available for reactions
  • noun the act of segregating or sequestering
  • noun a writ that authorizes the seizure of property
  • noun seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized

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Examples

  • And the sequestration is already happening exactly as he predicted.

    The Lesson from Dan Quayle John 2008

  • As far as I can tell, carbon capture and sequestration is a political bribe targeted towards fossil fuel power producers (such as coal states).

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Carbon Capture a Pipe Dream? 2010

  • In addition, in sequestration I can see ample opportunity for unintended consequences, and not the good kinds.

    Matthew Yglesias » No Alternative 2009

  • But carbon sequestration is subject to the same free rider effects as are most forms of reducing CO2 intensity once you get below the low-hanging fruit: it still costs more money to sequester than to just let the CO2 out the stack.

    Matthew Yglesias » No Alternative 2009

  • Also presents a version of the graph showing cost of intervention against emissions reduction, point out that sequestration is the most expensive choice of all.

    2009 May | Serendipity 2009

  • Also presents a version of the graph showing cost of intervention against emissions reduction, point out that sequestration is the most expensive choice of all.

    2009 May 26 | Serendipity 2009

  • The one element I disagree with, carbon capture and sequestration, is only because I think funding should be staggered so as to not flood the scientists with more money than they can usefully use at the moment.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Clean Energy Stimulus 2009

  • Also presents a version of the graph showing cost of intervention against emissions reduction, point out that sequestration is the most expensive choice of all.

    Liveblogging the AGU | Serendipity 2009

  • Carbon dioxide can also be injected into oil and gas reservoirs that are completely depleted, which would serve the purpose of long-term sequestration, but without any offsetting benefit from oil and gas production.

    Carbon capture and storage 2009

  • The permanence of sequestration is subject to some debate.

    Matthew Yglesias » A New Kind of Politics 2007

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