Word Meanings - SEGREGATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process. (more info) 1. The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SEGREGATION)

• Analysis
• Dissection
• separation
• anatomy
• segregation
• decomposition
• resolution
• partition
• Anatomy
• division
• analysis
• dismemberment
• Isolation
• Segregation
• detachment
• disconnection
• insularity
• self-containedness
• Selection
• Choice
• option
• election
• excerption
• gathering
• preoption
• adoption
• preference

Related words: (words related to SEGREGATION)

• CHOICELY
  1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• RESOLUTIONER
  One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century. He was sequestrated afterwards as a Resolutioner. Sir W. Scott.
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• CHOICEFUL
  Making choices; fickle. His choiceful sense with every change doth fit. Spenser.
• GATHERER
  An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
• ELECTIONEERER
  One who electioneers.
• OPTIONALLY
  In an optional manner.
• GATHERABLE
  Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. Godwin.
• RESOLUTIONIST
  One who makes a resolution.
• DETACHMENT
  1. The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached. 2. That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service. Troops . . . widely scattered in little detachments.
• DIVISIONAL
  That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.
• ELECTIONEER
  To make interest for a candidate at an election; to use arts for securing the election of a candidate. A master of the whole art of electioneering. Macaulay.
• OPTION
  A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; -- annulled by Parliament in 1845. (more info) 1. The
• GATHER
  To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like. (more info) together, fr. gæd fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband,
• RESOLUTION
  The act or process of solving; solution; as, the resolution of an equation or problem. (more info) 1. The act, operation, or process of resolving. Specifically: The act of separating a compound into its elements or component parts. The act of
• ANALYSIS
  The separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either what elements it contains, or how much of each element is present. The former is called qualitative, and the latter
• ADOPTIONIST
  One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• PRELECTION
  A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company. "The prelections of Faber." Sir M. Hale.
• UPGATHER
  To gather up; to contract; to draw together. Himself he close upgathered more and more. Spenser.
• MICROANALYSIS
  Analysis of the structure of materials from careful observation of photomicrographs.
• QUADRIPARTITION
  A division or distribution by four, or into four parts; also, a taking the fourth part of any quantity or number.
• BIPARTITION
  The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.
• PSYCHANALYSIS
  A method or process of psychotherapeutic analysis based on the work of Dr. Sigmund Freud of Vienna. The method rests upon the theory that hysteria is characteristically due to repression of desires consciously rejected but subconsciously
• HOBSON'S CHOICE
  A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing. Note: It is said to have had its origin in the name of one Hobson, at Cambridge, England, who let horses, and required every customer to take in his turn the horse which stood next the