Definitions for segregation

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segregation seg·re·ga·tion

Spelling: [seg-ri-gey-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌsɛg rɪˈgeɪ ʃən/

Segregation is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 1377 anagrams from letters in segregation (aeegginorst).

Definitions for segregation

noun

1. the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group:
2. the institutional separation of an ethnic, racial, religious, or other minority group from the dominant majority.
3. the state or condition of being segregated, set apart, separated, or restricted to one group:
4. something segregated, or set apart.
5. Genetics. the separation of allelic genes into different gametes during meiosis. Compare law of segregation.

Origin of segregation

1545-55; Late Latin sēgregātiōn- (stem of sēgregātiō), equivalent to sēgregāt(us) (see segregate) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for segregation

Dana Rubenstein of The New York Observer wrote that “essential to the experience was segregation.”

To begin with, testing exacerbates—or perhaps rationalizes—inequality and segregation in schools.

segregation, a phenomenon of the utmost novelty, was thus revealed.

Many other falls we shall have record of, and in most of them segregation is the great mystery.

We accept the segregation of other objects raised in that whirlwind.

Up from vicious poverty, abuse, and segregation, Holiday was a defiant and challenging presence.

Before Fidel, when segregation was in full swing, the Cuban apartheid meant many clubs and parks still refused black Cubans entry.

Slavery, segregation, and abortion led to civil war, vigilante violence, and massive protest movements.

Over and over in these annals of the damned occurs the datum of segregation.

Only the first is distinguished by the segregation of the quartz.