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