Isolation is the near or complete lack of social contact by an individual.

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Isolation or isolated may also refer to:

• Social isolation
• Isolation (health care), various measures taken to prevent contagious diseases from being spread
  • Isolation ward, a separate ward used to isolate patients with infectious diseases
• Isolation (psychology), a defense mechanism in psychoanalytic theory
• Emotional isolation, a feeling of isolation despite a functioning social network
• Isolation effect, a psychological effect of distinctive items more easily remembered

• Real-root isolation
• Isolation lemma, a technique used to reduce the number of solutions to a computational problem.

• Electrical or galvanic isolation, isolating functional sections of electrical systems to prevent current flowing between them
• An isolated system, a system without any external exchange
• Isolating language, a type of language with a low morpheme-per-word ratio
• Isolation (microbiology) techniques to separate microbes from a sample containing mixtures of microbes
• Reproductive isolation in population genetics, prevents members of two different species from producing offspring if they cross or mate
• Topographic isolation of a summit, the great circle distance to the nearest point of equal elevation

• In electronics, a measure of how well two ports are disconnected in devices such as directional couplers and circulators
• Isolation (database systems), how and when the changes made by one operation become visible to other concurrent operations
• In computer security, another name for software sandboxing
• Vibration isolation, in engineering, the process of isolating an object from the source of vibrations

• Isolation (board game), a 1972 board game also published under the titles Isola and Stranded
• Isolation (illusion), an illusion whereby a prop appears to float in space
• Isolation (poker), a play specifically for the purpose of making the hand a one-on-one contest with a specific opponent

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• Biocontainment
• Quarantine
• Insulation (disambiguation)
• Isolate (disambiguation)
• Isolator (disambiguation)
• Isolationism
• Uncontacted peoples, indigenous peoples living in isolation from the external world
• Solitary confinement, a special form of imprisonment in which a prisoner is isolated from most or all human contact
• Solitude, a state of seclusion or isolation, i.e., lack of contact with people

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