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.