separation

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• WordNet 3.6
  • n separation the act of dividing or disconnecting
  • n separation the social act of separating or parting company "the separation of church and state"
  • n separation (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)
  • n separation sorting one thing from others "the separation of wheat from chaff","the separation of mail by postal zones"
  • n separation the distance between things "fragile items require separation and cushioning"
  • n separation the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)
  • n separation coming apart
  • n separation the space where a division or parting occurs "he hid in the separation between walls"
  • n separation the state of lacking unity
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• Interesting fact: A violin actually contains 70 separate pieces of wood
• • n Separation (Steam Boilers) The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate.
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• Interesting fact: Italians do not drink espresso during meals. It is considered to be a separate event and is given its own time.
• • n separation The act of separating, removing, or disconnecting one thing from another; a disjoining or disjunction: as, the separation of the soul from the body; the separation of the good from the bad.
  • n separation The operation of disuniting or decomposing substances; chemical analysis.
  • n separation The state of being separate; disunion; disconnection; separate existence.
  • n separation Specifically, a limited divorce, or divorce from bed and board without a dissolution of the marriage tie. This may be by common consent or by decree of a court; in the latter case it is called a judicial separation. See divorce.
  • n separation In music:
  • n separation A passing-note between two tones a third apart.
  • n separation In organ-building, a contrivance introduced into instruments where the great organ keyboard has a pneumatic action, enabling the player to use that keyboard without sounding the pipes belonging to it, even though its stops may be more or less drawn. It is particularly useful where the action of the other keyboards when coupled together is too hard to be convenient.
  • n separation A body of persons separated in fact or doctrine from the rest of the community; a body of separatists or nonconformists; specifically, in the seventeenth century, the Puritans collectively.
  • n separation In astrology, the condition when two significators have lately been in aspect and the aspect is just over.
  • n separation In horticulture, the method of propagating plants by means of naturally separable parts, as offsets, small bulbs that spring from a mother bulb, or detachable buds.
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• Interesting fact: The City of Istanbul straddles two separate continents, Europe and Asia.
• • Separation act of separating or disjoining: state of being separate: disunion: chemical analysis: divorce without a formal dissolution of the marriage-tie
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• Erich Fromm

  

  “Man may be defined as the animal that can say I, that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.”
• Kahlil Gibran

  

  “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
• Marcel Proust

  

  “In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.”
• Francis Picabia

  

  “Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.”
• Virgil

  

  “The Britons are quite separated from all the world.”
• Source Unknown

  

  “Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.”

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