noun
definition
The act of severing or the state of being severed.
definition
A separation.
definition
A severance payment.
Examples of severance in a Sentence
The union of philosophy and theology is the mark of the middle ages, but in Occam their severance is complete.
It has been maintained that this tendency to a severance of the hybrid stock into its components must favour the persistence of a new character of large volume suddenly appearing in a stock, and the observations of Mendel have been held to favour in this way the views of those who hold that the variations upon which natural selection has acted in the production of new species are not small variations but large and " discontinuous."
A little later the breaking down of the whole axon, both axis cylinder and myelin sheath alike, seems to occur simultaneously throughout its entire length distal to the place of severance.
Similarly, when the axons of the motor spinal cells are by severance of the nerve trunk of a muscle broken through, the muscle cells undergo "degeneration" - dwindle, become fatty, and alter almost beyond recognition.
These muscles exhibit a certain constant condition of slight contraction, which disappears on severance of the nerve that innervates the muscle.
The severance of the colonies from their allegiance to the crown brought the English bishops for the first time face to face with the idea of an Anglican Church which should have nothing to do either with the royal supremacy or with British nationality.
This severance, it is true, may be geologically recent, and some geologists see, in the five rapids of the San Juan, remnants of a connecting ridge which the river has swept away.
But the evidence for past continuity is inconclusive, while there can be no doubt about the present severance of the two mountain systems. The main cordillera bears different names in different parts of Nicaragua.
The severance of the school which was to feed the college exclusively, placing it not at Oxford, but at Winchester, and constituting it a separate college, was a new departure of great importance in the history of education.
It must suffice to say that the separation of Ireland from England was a comparatively recent episode, while the severance of the landconnexion between England and the continent by the formation of the Strait of Dover is still more recent and probably occurred with the human period.
The opinion is deeply rooted in modern as in ancient thought, that only a distinctively human element of the highest import can account for the severance between man and the highest animal below him.
With the severance of its two members Eleaticism proper, the Eleaticism of Parmenides, ceased to exist.
Older people may consider severance of tenancy as a means of providing a nest egg for their loved ones.
This greatly increases the cycle network effectiveness and reduces the community severance caused by these roads.
But speed also adds to a feeling of more general road danger, deterring many from cycling and walking and causing severance within communities.
The methodology in GOMMMS (Volume 2 Section 7.4) should be used for assessing severance.
Estimating the numbers potentially affected is likely to be of particular relevance where existing severance is severe.
Her employment terminated on 31 October 1996, due to voluntary severance.
The complete organizational severance of this element from the workers ' parties has become imperative.
It had to extend the hours of business at all the offices; it had to extend the wires from railway stations lying outside of town populations to post offices in the centre of those populations and throughout their suburbs; it had also to extend the wires from towns into rural districts previously devoid of telegraphic communication; it had to effect a complete severance of commercial and domestic telegraphy from that of mere railway traffic, and in order to effect this severance it had to provide the railways with some 6000 m.
But theologians in the West had elaborated a theory of the grace of confirmation, which made its severance from baptism seem natural; and at the time of the Reformation, while neither side favoured the Eastern practice, the reformers, with their strong sense of the crucial importance of faith, emphasized the action of the individual in the service, and therefore laid it down as a rule that confirmation should be deferred till the child could learn a catechism on the fundamentals of the Christian faith, which Calvin thought he might do by the time he was ten.
Thus, about 1875, the distinction of Echinoderms from such radiate animals as jelly-fish and corals (see Coelentera), by their possession of a body-cavity ("coelom") distinct from the gut, was fully realized; while their severance from the worms (especially Gephyrea), with which some Echinoderms were long confused, had been necessitated by the recognition in all of a radial symmetry, impressed on the original bilateral symmetry of the larva through the growth of a special division of the coelom, known as the "hydrocoel," and giving rise to a set of water-bearing canals - the watervascular or ambulacral system.
While some of these can be readily quantified, others such as severance are much more difficult to define and analyze.
Since 1925 severance of a joint tenancy of a legal estate is impossible.
Prevents severance of common rights from the land to which they are attached.
High traffic speeds along a particular road can lead to severance of a local community.
Doubts and tensions between the two sides further exacerbated after US President Carter announced the severance of ties with Taiwan in 1978.
Lack of compliance should be discussed fully with suppliers or contractors and failure to improve should result in the severance of the relationship.
Part of my severance payment will be three months ' pay in lieu of notice.
Negotiations about severance packages should be informed, on both sides, by legal advice.
In October 2003, the CBI produced its own guidance for directors on severance pay.
The severance arrangements with the former chairman of Shell, Sir Phillips Watts have also been agreed.
Prior to its coming into existence there was no scheme in this University providing for severance terms.
Who wouldn't want a severance package like Conan's golden parachute?
The $210 million severance package he received has also been criticized because when the company's stock went down, his pay went up.
Lawyers can also assist with other employment-related matters, including reviewing employment contracts or a proposed severance package if the client's employment is terminated.
Eat and digest his or her own food since the circulatory relationship between mother and baby stops with the severance of the umbilical cord.
Gregory Hines became the lead singer for the R&B group "Severance", the house band for a bar in Venice, CA.
Unless it's in your contract that you will get severance pay if a layoff happens, don't count on it.
Employers are not bound by any laws to give employees severance pay when they tell them they need to pack their things.
Even if it's in your contract, you may not get your severance pay if the company is going out of business.
If the company is staying in business and you got laid off, and if your contract says you're entitled to severance pay, it may be worth following up on and possibly filing a complaint with the Labor Commission of your state.
Severance pay is iffy, and definitely not a must.
Differences may come from within your individual contract, such as the availability of a severance package.
This includes any vacation pay, severance pay, pensions or other benefits provided to you during this time.
The union in 1885 of Bulgaria with Eastern Rumelia, the severance of which had been the great triumph of the Berlin Congress, was another blow.
There were also not wanting inducements for the Allies to attempt a landing near Bulair, seeing that a victory at that point would carry with it the severance of the Turkish land communications with the peninsula.
In 1849 he came to London, where, according to his own account, his passion for open-air preaching caused his severance from the Wesleyans.
Ibn Ali Talib, anxious to perpetuate their severance from the orthodox church and the Byzantine empire, confirmed these privileges by charter and in 762 the patriarchate was removed to Bagdad.
As the result of the severance from the active interests of life, a new interest is awakened in the inner life of the individual.