separation
The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
Other meanings
The act or condition of two or more people being separated from one another.
The act or condition of a married couple living in separate homes while remaining legally married.
Related words
- preseparation
- reseparation
- separation anxiety disorder
- separation constant
- antiseparation
- bioseparation
- axiom schema of separation
- cyclonic separation
- diastereoseparation
- vertex separation number
- electroseparation
- enantioseparation
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "separatio".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “separation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.