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Noun separation has 9 senses
- separation - the act of dividing or disconnecting
--1 is a kind of change of integrity
--1 has particulars: | | avulsion; dissociation; secession, withdrawal; Secession; disunion; disconnection, disjunction; division; detachment, disengagement; tear; removal, remotion; division, partition, partitioning, segmentation, sectionalization, sectionalisation; divergence, divergency |
- separation, breakup, detachment - coming apart
--2 is a kind of change, alteration, modification
--2 has particulars:
- separation - the state of lacking unity
--3 is a kind of integrity, unity, wholeness
Antonyms: union, unification
--3 has particulars:
- interval, separation - the distance between things; "fragile items require separation and cushioning"
--4 is a kind of distance
--4 has particulars: clearance
- separation - sorting one thing from others; "the separation of wheat from chaff"; "the separation of mail by postal zones"
--5 is a kind of sorting
--5 has particulars: threshing; winnow, winnowing, sifting
- separation - the social act of separating or parting company; "the separation of church and state"
--6 is a kind of group action
--6 has particulars:
- separation - the space where a division or parting occurs; "he hid in the separation between walls"
--7 is a kind of space
- separation - termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)
--8 is a kind of result, resultant, final result, outcome, termination
- legal separation, separation - (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)
--9 is a kind of cessation, surcease
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