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1.NounThe state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people."She lived her final year in complete isolation, not wanting to see anybody."
2.NounThe act of isolating.
3.NounThe state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
4.NounThe obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
5.NounThe separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)"Upon returning from the field, he went into isolation for a week so as not to infect anyone with potential diseases."
6.NounA database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
7.NounA Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.