Definition of separation

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Separation (n.) The operation of removing water from steam.

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Seclusion :: Seclusion (n.) The act of secluding, or the state of being secluded; separation from society or connection; a withdrawing; privacy; as, to live in seclusion..
Sever :: Sever (v. i.) To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.
Abruption :: Abruption (n.) A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies.
Rejoin :: Rejoin (v. t.) To join again; to unite after separation.
Segregation :: Segregation (n.) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process..
Section :: Section (n.) The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies..
Externality :: Externality (n.) separation from the perceiving mind.
Exile :: Exile (n.) Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country..
Divide :: Divide (v. i.) To cause separation; to disunite.
Avulsion :: Avulsion (n.) A tearing asunder; a forcible separation.
Abstraction :: Abstraction (a.) A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction..
Abstraction :: Abstraction (a.) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
Chorisis :: Chorisis (n.) The separation of a leaf or floral organ into two more parts.
Disjuncture :: Disjuncture (n.) The act of disjoining, or state of being disjoined; separation..
Un- :: Un- () An inseparable verbal prefix or particle. It is prefixed: (a) To verbs to express the contrary, and not the simple negative, of the action of the verb to which it is prefixed; as in uncoil, undo, unfold. (b) To nouns to form verbs expressing privation of the thing, quality, or state expressed by the noun, or separation from it; as in unchild, unsex. Sometimes particles and participial adjectives formed with this prefix coincide in form with compounds of the negative prefix un- (see 2d Un-
Farewell :: Farewell (interj.) Go well; good-by; adieu; -- originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It is often separated by the pronoun; as, fare you well; and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye sweet groves; that is, I bid you farewell..
Branching :: Branching (n.) The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch.
Sequester :: Sequester (n.) Sequestration; separation.
Disunion :: Disunion (n.) The termination of union; separation; disjunction; as, the disunion of the body and the soul..
Dis- :: Dis- () A prefix from the Latin, whence F. des, or sometimes de-, dis-. The Latin dis-appears as di-before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, v, becomes dif-before f, and either dis-or di- before j. It is from the same root as bis twice, and duo, E. two. See Two, and cf. Bi-, Di-, Dia-. Dis-denotes separation, a parting from, as in distribute, disconnect; hence it often has the force of a privative and negative, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. Also intensive, as in dissever..
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