segregation

Meaning of segregation

noun
  1. 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.
  2. The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
  3. Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
  4. (public policy) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
  5. The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
  6. The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis

Information about segregation

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of segregation is: segregations.
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Hyphenation of segregation

seg-re-ga-tion

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
  • segregation is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

segregation synonyms

Meaning separatism:

separatism

Meaning sequestration:

sequestration

Meaning :

apartheid

segregation antonyms

Meaning :

desegregation

Translation of segregation

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