segregation

See also: ségrégation

English

Etymology

1555. From Latin segregatio. Morphologically segregate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛɡɹəˈɡeɪ̯ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

segregation (countable and uncountable, plural segregations)

1. 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.
2. (biology) The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
3. (mineralogy) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
4. (politics, public policy) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
5. (sociology) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
6. (genetics) The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis

Synonyms

• apartheid

Antonyms

• desegregation

Derived terms

• antisegregation
• cosegregation
• hypersegregation
• interface segregation principle
• macrosegregation
• malsegregation
• microsegregation
• missegregation
• nonsegregation
• postsegregation
• racial segregation
• resegregation
• segregational
• segregation distorter
• segregationism
• segregationist
• segregationless
• ultrasegregationist

 

Related terms

• segregate
• segregative
• segregator

Translations

setting apart or separation

• Bulgarian: отделяне (bg) n (otdeljane), разделяне (bg) n (razdeljane), изолиране (bg) n (izolirane)
• Catalan: segregació (ca) f
• Estonian: eraldamine
• Finnish: erottelu (fi), jakaantuminen (fi), jaottelu (fi), jaotteleminen (fi), jako (fi)
• French: ségrégation (fr) f, séparation (fr) f
• German: Trennung (de) f
• Indonesian: segregasi (id)
• Malay: pengasingan, pemisahan (ms), segregasi​
• Maori: whakatāuketanga, tāuketanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: (of sexes) kjønnsdeling m or f

  Nynorsk: (of sexes) kjønnsdeling f

• Persian: تفکیک (fa) (tafkik), جداسازی (fa) (jodâ-sâzi)
• Portuguese: segregação (pt) f
• Russian: отделе́ние (ru) n (otdelénije), разделе́ние (ru) n (razdelénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: dealachadh m
• Spanish: segregación (es) f
• Swedish: segregation (sv)
• Turkish: ayırma (tr)

biology

• Malay: segregasi​
• Persian: جدایی (fa) (jodâyi), تفکیک (fa) (tafkik)

mineralogy

• Malay: segregasi​
• Ukrainian: сегрега́ція f (sehrehácija)

politics, public policy — see also apartheid

• Bulgarian: сегрегация f (segregacija)
• Finnish: rotuerottelu (fi) (racial segregation)
• Georgian: სეგრეგაცია (segregacia)
• German: Rassentrennung (de) f (racial segregation), Geschlechtertrennung f (sexual segregation)
• Malay: pengasingan, pemisahan (ms), pemencilan, pemulauan​
• Portuguese: segregação (pt) f
• Russian: сегрега́ция (ru) f (segregácija)
• Turkish: ayrımcılık (tr), ırk ayrımı (tr)
• Ukrainian: сегрега́ція f (sehrehácija)

sociology — see also apartheid

• Danish: segregation (da)
• German: Rassentrennung (de) f (racial segregation), Geschlechtertrennung f (sexual segregation)
• Malay: pengasingan, pemisahan (ms), pemencilan, pemulauan​
• Portuguese: segregação (pt) f
• Russian: сегрега́ция (ru) f (segregácija)
• Swedish: segregation (sv)
• Turkish: cinsiyet ayrımcılığı, kadın erkek ayrımcılığı
• Ukrainian: сегрега́ція f (sehrehácija)

Anagrams

• Saint George

Danish

Noun

segregation

1. (sociology) segregation (of cultures)

Coordinate terms

• assimilation, pluralistisk integration

Swedish

Noun

segregation c

1. segregation

   Antonym: desegregation

Declension

Declension of segregation
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	segregation	segregationen	segregationer	segregationerna
Genitive	segregations	segregationens	segregationers	segregationernas

Related terms

• segregera

References

• segregation in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• segregation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)