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separation   (TTS Sound)

The noun separation has 9 senses

• separation -- (the state of lacking unity)


• separation, breakup, detachment -- (coming apart)


• interval, separation -- (the distance between things; "fragile items require separation and cushioning")


• separation -- (sorting one thing from others; "the separation of wheat from chaff"; "the separation of mail by postal zones")


• separation -- (the social act of separating or parting company; "the separation of church and state")


• separation -- (the space where a division or parting occurs; "he hid in the separation between walls")


• separation -- (the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal))


• legal separation, separation -- ((law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order))


• separation -- (the act of dividing or disconnecting)