Look up: segregation

1. segregation
   Locating general merchandise products (GM) in a well-defined area of a store rather than in aisles next to or across from food products.
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2. Segregation
   The separation of homologous chromosomes and genes from different parents at meiosis.
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3. segregation
   [Noun] The process of separating a group of people from others.
   Example: There is a segregation of the sexes in male and female changing rooms.
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4. Segregation
   The process in which two or more people (or groups of people) are kept separate. Usually because of differences in race, beliefs, colour or sex.
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5. segregation
   [n] - (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes 2. [n] - a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups 3. [n] - the act of segregating or sequestering
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6. Segregation
   the physical and social separation of categories of people
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7. segregation
   a preferential rejection by,or incorporation into,the solid phase of a solution component as it solidifies Category: Electrical engineering and energy • deviation from average composition in a phase,arising from diffusion or from the conditions prevailing during solidification etc. Ca...
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8. Segregation
   Seg`re·ga'tion noun [ Latin segregatio : confer French ségrégation .] 1. The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting. 2. (Geol.) Separation from a mass, and gatherin...
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9. segregation
   1. The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting. ... 2. <geology> Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process. ... Origin: L. Segregatio: cf. F. Segregation....
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10. segregation
    sequestration noun the act of segregating or sequestering; `sequestration of the jury`
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11. segregation
    separatism noun a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
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12. segregation
    noun (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes
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13. segregation
    (seg″rә-ga´shәn) the separation of allelic genes during meiosis as homologous chromosomes begin to migrate toward opposite poles of the cell, so that eventually the members of each pair of allelic genes go to separate gametes. the progressive restriction of potencies in the zygote to the ...
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14. Segregation
    • (n.) The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting. • (n.) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
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15. segregation
    (from the article `metallurgy`) Different parts of a casting may have different compositions, stemming from the fact that the solid freezing out of a liquid has a different ...
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16. segregation
    (from the article `igneous rock`) These are special types of inclusions that are intimately related to their host rocks and in general are relatively rich in one or more of the ...
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17. segregation
    (from the article `Chicago`) ...toward abandonment began in many areas of the South and West sides. The departing families were replaced by newly arrived minorities, whose ... ...the 1890s, when Republican factions began dispensing money to secure voter support and blacks were admitted to the polls, did the Democrats lose ... In thei...
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18. Segregation
    The tendency for the coarse particles to separate from the finer particles in handling. In concrete, the coarse aggregate and drier material remains behind and the mortar and wetter material flows ahead. This also occurs in a vertical direction when wet concrete is over vibrated or dropped verticall...
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19. Segregation
    The normal biological process whereby the two pieces of a chromosome pair are separated during meiosis and randomly distributed to the germ cells.
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20. Segregation
    The tendency, as concrete is caused to flow laterally, for coarse aggregate and drier material to remain behind and for mortar and wetter material to flow ahead. This also occurs in a vertical direction when wet concrete is over-vibrated, the mortar and wetter material rising to the top. In the vert...
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21. segregation
    a method of protecting client assets and positions by holding or accounting for them separately from those of the carrying firm or broker....
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22. segregation
    an arrangement of conductors with earthed metal interposed between them in such a manner that disruptive discharges can only occur to earth
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23. segregation
    segregation: see apartheid; integration.
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24. segregation
    Type: Term Pronunciation: seg′rĕ-gā′shŭn Definitions: 1. Removal of certain parts from a mass, those with infectious diseases. 2. Separation of contrasting characters in the offspring of heterozygotes. 3. Separation of the paired state of genes, which occurs at the reducti...
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