segregation

The act or process of segregating or the condition of being segregated.

The policy or practice of separating people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups, as in schools, housing, and public or commercial facilities, especially as a form of discrimination.

The separation of paired alleles or homologous chromosomes, especially during meiosis, so that the members of each pair appear in different gametes.

The separation of the descendants of Mendelian hybrids into dominants, recessives, and hybrids, in conformity to a numerical law.

The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting; a dispersion.

In crystallography, separation from a mass and gathering about centers through crystallization.

In geology and mining, a separating out from a rock of a band or seam, or a nodular mass of some kind of mineral or metalliferous matter, differing more or less in texture or in composition or in both respects from the material in which it is inclosed.

The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.

Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process.

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.