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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
separation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
enforced absence/separation etc
▪ a period of enforced isolation
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clear
▪ In a company this is interpreted as the absence of a clear separation between strategy and implementation.
▪ If you must, then it is crucial to set up a clear separation.
▪ There was a clear separation between the Cabinet and Mrs Thatcher in the minds of many Conservative activists and observers.
▪ Bottle-wrack, on the other hand, makes a clear separation between growth and reproduction.
▪ So it should be clear that the separation of husband and wife has nothing to do with infertility of the woman.
complete
▪ But the great change is that nowadays there is a complete separation of children of different classes.
formal
▪ Beveridge made proposals for a separation benefit, to be paid only in cases of formal separation not caused by the wife.
▪ A large minority favors formal separation.
long
▪ They were convinced there should be no long periods of separation.
▪ Diana and Charles were divorced last year after a long, bitter separation.
▪ The researchers questioned whether parents of premature infants suffered from deprivation due to their long physical separation from their hospitalized infants.
physical
▪ The first physical separation must later be followed by a psychological separation so that the child can become an independent adult.
▪ This means that physical separation of the free labeled antigen from the antibody-bound labeled antigen is not necessary for measurement.
▪ The mere physical separation of personnel can be a real source of frustration.
▪ The researchers questioned whether parents of premature infants suffered from deprivation due to their long physical separation from their hospitalized infants.
▪ Despite its physical separation from the continuously built up conurbation, Cramlington is now socially a part of Tyneside.
▪ Fear about the spread of infection accounted for the physical separation of the obstetrical and pediatric divisions in large general hospitals.
▪ But we identify with this physical separation even at a mental and spiritual level, where such separation has begun to dissolve.
▪ However, the physical separation, differences in jargon, and differences in mode of operation present yet a third communication gap.
strict
▪ Quite clearly there is no strict separation of powers in this country today.
▪ In the absence of mitigating factors the virus is likely to hit a dead end wherever strict role separation is practiced.
total
▪ What it does is to create an image of total separation expressed in understatement.
▪ Even on the issue of biblical interpretation, the concept of a total separation would be too crude.
■ NOUN
anxiety
▪ Much of the patient's psychological disturbances relate to separation anxiety and difficulties with boundaries and identity formation.
▪ Was diagnosed at two as possibly having separation anxiety or attachment disorder.
▪ There was no separation anxiety, which in itself is a paradox, involving both the need and the fear of separation.
▪ The kids with separation anxiety were very likely to have stomachaches or other gastrointestinal problems.
▪ The owners inadvertently supply another, but in their absence, this crutch isn't there and symptoms of separation anxiety occur.
colour
▪ Muggins got the colour separations done for that at art school.
▪ Retouching a means of altering artwork or colour separations to correct faults or enhance the image.
phase
▪ This was done in order to avoid phase separations during the incubation process.
▪ As hydrogen bonds are thermally labile a rise in T reduces the number of bonds and causes eventual phase separation.
▪ The critical composition at which phase separation is first detected is then and which indicates that at infinitely large chain length.
trial
▪ At the time, what Lissa and I did was supposed to be a trial separation.
■ VERB
achieve
▪ On screen they had achieved the desired separation.
announce
▪ Four months later Anne and Mark announced their separation.
▪ December 9: Buckingham Palace announces the separation.
maintain
▪ Restrictive rules maintained the separation of these functions and limited Stock Exchange membership and the inflow of capital into existing firms.
▪ The Air National Guard said the F-16s had maintained proper separation from the civilian plane.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He said he understood her doubts and perhaps a trial separation might be the answer.
▪ In the case of separation or divorce, the children's needs should come first.
▪ Since the separation they've each been seeing different people.
▪ The worst part of the divorce was the separation from his three children.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Failure of a student to maintain a minimum average for two consecutive semesters results in his separation from the university.
▪ How much worse the separation seemed then! at least for Helenhow much more real.
▪ In 1965 members of parliament regretted that the separation of children into different types of secondary schools impeded the raising of standards.
▪ My husband and I are considering a separation.
▪ The insecurities created by separation in the early and formative years take their toll in adult life.
▪ The resulting charge separation, is in many ways analogous to photosynthetic charge separation.
▪ Then comes what is called gravity separation.
▪ This separation creates inevitable tensions between the team and the consultant, which are inimical to good multidisciplinary work.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Separation

Separation \Sep`a*ra"tion\, n. [L. separatio: cf. F. s['e]paration.] The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate. Specifically:

  1. Chemical analysis.

  2. Divorce.

  3. (Steam Boilers) The operation of removing water from steam.

    Judicial separation (Law), a form of divorce; a separation of man and wife which has the effect of making each a single person for all legal purposes but without ability to contract a new marriage.
    --Mozley & W.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
separation

c.1400, from Old French separacion (Modern French séparation), from Latin separationem (nominative separatio) noun of action from past participle stem of separare (see separate (v.)). Specific sense of "sundering of a married couple" is attested from c.1600. Sense in photography is from 1922. Separation of powers first recorded 1788, in "Federalist" (Hamilton), from French séparée de la puissance (Montesquieu, 1748). Separation anxiety first attested 1943.

Wiktionary
separation

n. 1 The act of disunite two or more things, or the condition of being separated. 2 The place at which a division occurs. 3 An interval, gap or space that separates things. 4 (context legal English) An agreement terminating a relationship between husband and wife, but short of a divorce. 5 (context military English) Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.

WordNet
separation
  1. n. the act of dividing or disconnecting

  2. coming apart [syn: breakup, detachment]

  3. the state of lacking unity [ant: union]

  4. the distance between things; "fragile items require separation and cushioning" [syn: interval]

  5. sorting one thing from others; "the separation of wheat from chaff"; "the separation of mail by postal zones"

  6. the social act of separating or parting company; "the separation of church and state"

  7. the space where a division or parting occurs; "he hid in the separation between walls"

  8. termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)

  9. (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order) [syn: legal separation]

Wikipedia
Separation

Separation may refer to:

  • Separation (United States military), the process by which a service member leaves active duty
  • Separation (air traffic control), rules to minimise the risk of collision between aircraft in flight
  • Separation mastering, in music recording
Separation (United States military)

In the U.S. armed forces, separation means that a person is leaving active duty, but not necessarily leaving the service entirely. Separation typically occurs when someone reaches the date of their Expiration of Term of Service (ETS) and are released from active duty, but still must complete their military reserve obligations. Upon separation, they receive form DD214, which indicates their former and future status.

When a person completes their full military obligation, they are discharged and receive a formal certificate of discharge, usually an Honorable Discharge.

Category:United States military policies Category:Military terminology of the United States

Separation (EP)

Separation is an EP by Halou.

Separation (aeronautics)

In air traffic control, separation is the name for the concept of keeping an aircraft outside a minimum distance from another aircraft to reduce the risk of those aircraft colliding, as well as prevent accidents due to secondary factors, such as wake turbulence. Separation can also apply to terrain, obstacles, and controlled airspace, wherein an aircraft must stay at a minimum distance from a block of airspace; as an example, all aircraft must be approved by the controller who "owns" the airspace before the aircraft is approved to enter that sector. Air traffic controllers apply rules, known as separation minima to do this. Pairs of aircraft to which these rules have been successfully applied are said to be separated: the risk of these aircraft colliding is therefore remote. If separation is lost between two aircraft, they are said to be in a conflict.

When an aircraft passes behind or follows another aircraft, wake turbulence minima are applied due to the effect of the wingtip vortices of the preceding aircraft on the following aircraft. These minima vary depending on the relative size of the two aircraft. This is particularly acute on final approach with a smaller aircraft following larger aircraft.

Separation (band)

Separation was a Swedish straight edge hardcore punk band from Umeå that existed between 1994 and 1999.

Separation (2013 film)

Separation is a 2013 Canadian thriller film directed by Greg White and his feature film directorial debut. The film was released on video on demand on April 15, 2013 and stars Sarah Manninen and Peter Stebbings as a married couple struggling to save their lives as well as their marriage.

Separation (1967 film)

Separation, a film produced in 1967 and released in 1968, was written by and starred Jane Arden and directed by Jack Bond.

The film explores the life of a middle-aged woman following the breakdown of her marriage. It features on its soundtrack music by Stanley Myers, one song ("Salad Days") by the British rock group Procol Harum and instrumental music by Procol's original Hammond organist Matthew Fisher. In addition to Jane Arden the film stars the British actors David de Keyser and Iain Quarrier.

Separation, which was photographed in black and white with colour sequences, was restored by the British Film Institute for DVD and Blu-ray Disc and released in the UK on 13 July 2009. Another edition of the DVD, with a different cover photo and music credits for Procol Harum on the front cover and for Stanley Myers, Procol Harum and Matthew Fisher on the back cover, was released in the USA in March, 2010. Separation was released on DVD in the U.S. for the first time on 30 March 2010 by Microcinema.

Separation (statistics)

In statistics, separation is a phenomenon associated with models for dichotomous or categorical outcomes, including logistic and probit regression. Separation occurs if the predictor (or a linear combination of some subset of the predictors) is associated with only one outcome value when the predictor is greater than some constant.

For example, if the predictor X is continuous, and the outcome y = 1 for all observed x > 2. If the outcome values are perfectly determined by the predictor (e.g., y = 0 when x ≤ 2) then the condition "complete separation" is said to obtain. If instead there is some overlap (e.g., y = 0 when x < 2, but y has observed values of 0 and 1 when x = 2) then "quasi-complete separation" obtains. A 2 × 2 table with an empty cell is an example of quasi-complete separation.

This observed form of the data is important because it causes problems with estimated regression coefficients. Loosely, a parameter in the model "wants" to be infinite, if complete separation is observed. If quasi-complete separation is the case, the likelihood is maximized at a very large but not infinite value for that parameter. Computer programs will often output an arbitrarily large parameter estimate with a very large standard error. Methods to fit these models include exact logistic regression and "Firth" logistic regression, a bias-reduction method based on a penalized likelihood.

Usage examples of "separation".

We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which pronounces our separation, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace, friends.

But she saw the veil he had spread over his resentment, and, his assumed tranquillity only alarming her more, she urged, at length, the impolicy of forcing an interview with Montoni, and of taking any measure, which might render their separation irremediable.

Now and then we recollected that the time of our separation was near at hand, our grief was bitter, but we contrived to forget it in the ecstacy of our amorous enjoyment.

I did not doubt that the circumstances of the other instance of her aphonia, which she claimed not to remember, had also involved a separation.

When the archegonium opens by the separation of the cells at the tip, the disorganized canal-cells escape, leaving a narrow tubular passage leading down to the ovum.

Ores of Lead -- Geographical Distribution of the Lead Industry -- Chemical and Physical Properties of Lead -- Alloys of Lead -- Compounds of Lead -- Dressing of Lead Ores -- Smelting of Lead Ores -- Smelting in the Scotch or American Ore-hearth -- Smelting in the Shaft or Blast Furnace -- Condensation of Lead Fume -- Desilverisation, or the Separation of Silver from Argentiferous Lead -- Cupellation -- The Manufacture of Lead Pipes and Sheets -- Protoxide of Lead -- Litharge and Massicot -- Red Lead or Minium -- Lead Poisoning -- Lead Substitutes -- Zinc and its Compounds -- Pumice Stone -- Drying Oils and Siccatives -- Oil of Turpentine Resin -- Classification of Mineral Pigments -- Analysis of Raw and Finished Products -- Tables -- Index.

He was part of her, just as Atretes was, and the separation was as painful as if flesh had been torn away.

It is used as an indicator in volumetric silver assaying, and for the separation of iodine from bromine.

The guilty wretch was fastened to two trees forcibly drawn towards each other, and his limbs were torn asunder by their sudden separation.

Madame Aubain resigned herself to the separation from her son because it was unavoidable.

Now it devolves upon every well-assured and devoted friend, every firm and enkindled believer enraptured by His love, to drink this healing remedy at one draught, so that the agony of bereavement may be somewhat alleviated and the bitter anguish of separation dissipated.

We continually receive joyous news of the health and well-being of the Guardian of the Cause of God and eagerly hope that the night of separation may come to an end, that the period of bereavement may soon expire and his blessed person may return to this hallowed Spot with utmost joy and radiance.

He would realize all at once that three, seven, thirteen years, in one cycle of separation, and then four, eight, sixteen, in yet another, had elapsed since he had last embraced, held, bewept Ada.

The apex is sometimes bifid or even trifid, owing to a slight separation between the terminal pointed cells.

Radial rather than bilateral symmetry would eliminate the left-hemisphere-right-hemi-sphere separation of the higher creatures on Earth.