Look up: Sequester

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   Sequester
   To extract and absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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   sequester
   [v] - requisition forcibly, as of enemy property 2. [v] - Chemistry: undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion 3. [v] - set apart from others
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   Sequester
   Sequester: 1. In medicine, to set apart, detach or separate a small portion of tissue from the rest. 2. In bone, for a piece of dead bone to separate from the sound bone. 3. In biochemistry, to isolate a constituent of a system by chelation or other means. From the French séquestrer, from the late Latin sequestrare, meaning to place in safe keeping ...
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   sequester
   a portion of dead bone which has become detached from the healthy bone tissue,as occurs in necrosis Category: Medicine
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   Sequester
   Se·ques'ter transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sequestered ; present participle & verbal noun Sequestering .] [ French séquestrer , Latin sequestrare to give up for safe keeping, from sequester a depositary or trustee in whose hands the thing contested was placed until the dispute was settled. Confer ...
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   Sequester
   Se·ques'ter intransitive verb 1. To withdraw; to retire. [ Obsolete] « To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics.» Milton. 2. (Law) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
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   Sequester
   Se·ques'ter noun 1. Sequestration; separation. [ R.] 2. (Law) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee. Bouvier. 3. (Medicine) Same as Sequestrum .
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   sequester
   1. To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of conte ...
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   sequester
   keep apart verb set apart from others; `The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on`
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    sequester
    (se-kwes´tәr) to detach or separate abnormally a small portion from the whole. to isolate a portion of a chemical system by chelation or other means; see also sequestrant.
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    Sequester
    • (v. i.) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband. • (v. t.) To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand fo...
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    sequester
    sequester To detach abnormally or separate a small portion from the whole.
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