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Separating
- verb -
- act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries"
- arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
- come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways;
- divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks"
- force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
- go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party"
- make a division or separation
- mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
- separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
- treat differently on the basis
Separation
- noun - (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)
- coming apart
- sorting one thing from others; "the separation of wheat from chaff"; "the separation of mail by postal zones"
- the act of dividing or disconnecting
- the distance between things; "fragile items require separation and cushioning"
- the social act of separating or parting company; "the separation of church and state"
- the space where a division or parting occurs; "he hid in the separation between walls"
- the state of lacking unity
- the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)
Separatism
- noun - a disposition toward schism and secession from a larger group; the principles and practices of separatists; "separatism is a serious problem in Quebec"; "demands for some form of separatism on grounds of religion have been perceived as a threat to mainstream education"
- a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
- advocacy of a policy of strict separation of church and state
Separatist
- adjective - an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union)
- having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction"
Separative
- adjective - (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group; "whereas `each,' `every,' `either,' `neither,' and `none' are distributive or referring to a single member of a group, `which' in `which of the men' is separative"
- (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it
- serving to separate or divide into parts; "partitive tendencies in education"; "the uniting influence was stronger than the separative"
Separators
- noun - an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension
Separatrix
- noun - a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
Sepiolites
- noun - a white clayey mineral