1. enforced separation of groups: the practice of keeping ethnic, racial, religious, or gender groups separate, especially by enforcing the use of separate schools, transportation, housing, and other facilities, and usually discriminating against a minority group
2. segregated state: the state or position of somebody or something kept separate from others
3. act of segregating: the separating of one person, group, or thing from others, or the dividing of people or things into separate groups kept apart from each other
4. genetics gene separation: the separation of the two versions alleles of each gene and their distribution to separate sex cells during the formation meiosis of these cells in organisms with paired chromosomes
