sequestration

[ see-kwes-trey-shuhn, si-kwes- ]
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noun
  1. removal or separation; banishment or exile.

  2. a withdrawal into seclusion; retirement.

  1. segregation from others; isolation: sequestration of jurors during a trial.

  2. Law.

  3. Chemistry. the combining of metallic ions with a suitable reagent into a stable, soluble complex in order to prevent the ions from combining with a substance with which they would otherwise have formed an insoluble precipitate, from causing interference in a particular reaction, or from acting as undesirable catalysts.

  4. the trapping of a chemical in the atmosphere or environment and its isolation in a natural or artificial storage area: Carbon sequestration can reduce global warming.

    • the process of implementing an automatic cut in government spending across most departments, agencies, etc.: efforts to avoid or delay sequestration.

    • an instance of this: An $80 billion sequestration would lead to massive layoffs.

Origin of sequestration

1
1350–1400; Middle English <Late Latin sequestrātiōn- (stem of sequestrātiō), equivalent to sequestrāt(us) (past participle of sequestrāre to sequester) + -iōn--ion

Other words from sequestration

  • non·se·ques·tra·tion, noun

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British Dictionary definitions for sequestration

sequestration

/ (ˌsiːkwɛˈstreɪʃən) /


noun
  1. the act of sequestering or state of being sequestered

  2. law the sequestering of property

  1. chem the effective removal of ions from a solution by coordination with another type of ion or molecule to form complexes that do not have the same chemical behaviour as the original ions: See also sequestrant

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