Crossword clues for segregation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Segregation \Seg`re*ga"tion\, n. [L. segregatio: cf. F. s['e]gr['e]gation.]
The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.
(Geol.) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "act of segregating," from Late Latin segregationem (nominative segregatio), noun of action from past participle stem of segregare (see segregate). Meaning "state of being segregated" is from 1660s. Specific U.S. sense of "enforced separation of races" is attested from 1883.\n\nRarely are we met with a challenge, not to our growth or abundance, or our welfare or our security, but rather to the values and the purposes and the meaning of our beloved nation. The issue of equal rights for American Negroes is such an issue. And should we defeat every enemy, and should we double our wealth and conquer the stars, and still be unequal to this issue, then we will have failed as a people and as a nation.
[Lyndon Johnson, speech introducing Voting Rights Act, March 15, 1965]
\nWiktionary
n. 1 The setting apart or separation of things or people, as a natural process, a manner of organizing people that may be voluntary or enforced by law. 2 (rfc-sense) (context biology English) The Mendelian Law of Segregation related to genetic transmission or geographical segregation of various species. 3 (context mineralogy English) separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallize process. 4 (context politics public policy English) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex). 5 (context sociology English) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
WordNet
n. (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes
a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups [syn: separatism]
the act of segregating or sequestering; "sequestration of the jury" [syn: sequestration] [ant: integration]
Wikipedia
Segregation or segregate may refer to:
Usage examples of "segregation".
There are cases where it is advisable, in states too poor or niggardly to care adequately for their defectives and delinquents, but eugenists should favor segregation as the main policy, with sterilization for the special cases as previously indicated.
Molecular neo-Mendelism is consistent with the rules of gross segregation and assortment, requiring no metaphysical rulesjust the constraints laid down by chemists: purine with pyrimidine, electrons in the lowest energetic state.
While the assimilationist Jewish leaders naturally opposed the scheme as the first step towards total school segregation, Stricker welcomed the new ghetto schools.
South-west of this branch of the Athapascan family, for the striking differences in the details of their myths would seem to indicate that the tribal separation was not a recent one, and that the mythology of the two tribes became changed in the course of its natural development along different lines or through accretion of other peoples since the original segregation.
It was a voice yelling a line from the new state song, a song that until this moment had been automatically connected to support for Ross Barnett and eternal segregation and the defiance of federal law.
The most dramatic episode unfolded in May 1961, when the tiny Congress of Racial Equality sent biracial teams of volunteers into Alabama and Mississippi to conduct a nonviolent test of Supreme Court decisions banning segregation on interstate travel.
Northern cities were busing children back and forth in an attempt to create racially mixed schools, despite the racial segregation in housing.
They seem to have occupied this neighborhood for a considerable period, as mention is made of two or three segregations, when groups of families moved a few miles away and built similar house clusters on the brink of that canyon.
In reply, it may be said that the expense will decrease steadily, when segregation is viewed as a long-time investment, because the number of future wards of the state of any particular type will be decreasing every year.
Strom Thurmond ran for president in 1948 he did so as a Dixiecrat, on the platform of segregation.
This vice will also be apparent in the easy acquaintance of all who are possessed of wealth and their segregation from the less fortunate, for avarice cleaves society flatways, keeping the scum of it quite clear of the middle, the middle of it quite clear of the dregs, and so forth.
The effects of consolidation are conspicuous among the Omaha, Kansa, Osage, and Oto, while segregation has affected the social organization among the Kansa, Ponka, and Teton.
The so-called minorities in this country are not being done any favors when the multiculturalist crowd forces their attitudinal segregation from mainstream society.
But the segregation of the lepers on Molokai is not the horrible nightmare that has been so often exploited by YELLOW writers.
That was more than I could say of myself in the United States, where the segregation of lepers is loosely enforced and where I have repeatedly seen lepers on the streets of large cities.