Definitions
1.NounThe act of setting apart and organizing things based upon their characteristics.
2.NounThe separation of people based upon race, sex, religion, or other identity in institutions.
3.NounThe setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
4.NounSeparation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
5.NounThe separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
6.NounThe separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
7.NounThe separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis
8.NounSeparation for practical reasons, by necessity.
9.NounThe separation of a subset of prisoners from the general prison population, possibly solitary confinement.