separation
noun
[ sɛpəˈreɪʃ(ə)n ]
• the action or state of moving or being moved apart.
• "the damage that might arise from the separation of parents and children"
Similar:
disconnection,
detachment,
severance,
uncoupling,
dissociation,
disassociation,
disjunction,
disunion,
disaffiliation,
segregation,
partition,
sundering,
disseverment,
break-up,
split,
split-up,
parting,
estrangement,
parting of the ways,
rift,
rupture,
breach,
divorce,
legal separation,
judicial separation,
bust-up,
• the division of something into constituent or distinct elements.
• "prose structured into short sentences with meaningful separation into paragraphs"
• distinction or difference between the signals carried by the two channels of a stereophonic system.
• "use two transmitters for full stereo separation"
• short for colour separation.
• the generation of a turbulent boundary layer between the surface of a body and a moving fluid, or between two fluids moving at different speeds.
Origin:
late Middle English: via Old French from Latin separatio(n- ), from separare ‘disjoin, divide’ (see separate).
