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Segregation

noun

(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. Synonym: separatism.

The act of segregating or sequestering. Synonym: sequestration.

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... French tongue unmatched in England, and a complete familiarity with its history, application and genius, yet I can put to my credit a year of active, if eccentric, experience in a French barrack room, and a complete segregation during those twelve memorable months wherein I could study the very soul of this ...

— Avril - Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance • H. Belloc

... specimens may be obtained with a layer of gurhofite above them, and separated by the serpentine; this assortment is very interesting, revealing to us the manner in which they were formed, which was by a process termed segregation. ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 • Various

... out of the hall Frome, drawing back behind the projecting storm-door, watched the segregation of the grotesquely muffled groups, in which a moving lantern ray now and then lit up a face flushed with food and dancing. The villagers, being afoot, were the first to climb the slope to the main street, while the country neighbours packed themselves ...

— Ethan Frome • Edith Wharton

... was held with passionate conviction by men of the highest ability in every country of Europe; and a Socialist Press began to arise, which was everywhere free, and soon in active opposition to the Official Press. Again (of a religious temper in their segregation, conviction and enthusiasm) there began to appear (when the oppressor was mild), the small papers defending the ...

— The Free Press • Hilaire Belloc

... general considerations was becoming gradually clear to many of us when in 1900 Mendel's work was rediscovered. Segregation, a phenomenon of the utmost novelty, was thus revealed. From that moment not only in the problem of the origin of species, but in all the great problems of biology a new era began. So unexpected was the discovery that many naturalists were convinced ...

— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others

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