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separation

[ sep-uh-rey-shuhn ]

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noun

an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
a place, line, or point of parting.
a gap, hole, rent, or the like.
something that separates or divides.
Law.
1. cessation of conjugal cohabitation, as by mutual consent.
2. judicial separation.
Aerospace. the time or act of releasing a burned-out stage of a rocket or missile from the remainder.
Photography. separation negative.

separation

/ ˌsɛpəˈreɪʃən /

the act of separating or state of being separated
the place or line where a separation is made
a gap that separates
See divorce, judicial separation
family law the cessation of cohabitation between a man and wife, either by mutual agreement or under a decree of a court Compare judicial separation divorce
1. the act of jettisoning a burnt-out stage of a multistage rocket
2. the instant at which such a stage is jettisoned

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin sēparātiōn- (stem of sēparātiō ), equivalent to sēparāt ( us ) separate + -iōn- -ion

He advocates a secular regime with a total separation of religion form the government.

Enter Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which threatened to sue.

But the picture is torn in half by the geographic separation of the friezes.

Even in the painful separation of child and parent, there was humour.

But the second thing is the way this city has changed in recent years, the intensification of the separation.

These differences of interests will lead to disputes, ill blood, and finally to separation.

Wharton left Vienna, the morning after his separation from Louis in the garden of the chateau.

Punch went out and wept bitterly with Judy, into whose fair head he had driven some ideas of the meaning of separation.

The clear, straw-colored fluid which is left after separation of the coagulum is called blood-serum.

But also it was an inarticulate yearning to find that state of safety where he and she dwelt secure from separation—in the 'sea.'

April 18, 2024petrichor

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