Segregation may refer to:
Separation of people
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Geographical segregation
Geographical segregation exists whenever the proportions of population rates of two or more populations are not homogeneous throughout a defined space. Populations can be considered any plant or animal species, human genders, followers of a certai ...
, rates of two or more populations which are not homogenous throughout a defined space
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School segregation
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Housing segregation
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Racial segregation
Racial segregation is the separation of people into race (human classification), racial or other Ethnicity, ethnic groups in daily life. Segregation can involve the spatial separation of the races, and mandatory use of different institutions, ...
, separation of humans into racial groups in daily life
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Racial segregation in the United States
Facilities and services such as housing, healthcare, education, employment, and transportation have been systematically separated in the United States based on racial categorizations. Notably, racial segregation in the United States was the leg ...
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Religious segregation, the separation of people according to their religion
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Residential segregation, the physical separation of two or more groups into different neighbourhoods
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Sex segregation
Sex segregation, sex separation, sex partition, gender segregation, gender separation, or gender partition is the physical, legal, or cultural separation of people according to their gender or Sex, biological sex at any age. Sex segregation ca ...
, the physical, legal, and cultural separation of people according to their biological sex
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Occupational segregation, the distribution of people based upon demographic characteristics, most often gender, both across and within occupations and jobs
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Age segregation, separation of people based on their age and may be observed in many aspects of some societies
* Health segregation - see
quarantine
A quarantine is a restriction on the movement of people, animals, and goods which is intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests. It is often used in connection to disease and illness, preventing the movement of those who may have bee ...
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isolation (health care)
In health care facilities, isolation represents one of several measures that can be taken to implement in infection control: the prevention of communicable diseases from being transmitted from a patient to other patients, health care workers, ...
* Segregation of inmates in prisons - see
protective custody and
solitary confinement
Solitary confinement (also shortened to solitary) is a form of imprisonment in which an incarcerated person lives in a single Prison cell, cell with little or no contact with other people. It is a punitive tool used within the prison system to ...
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Separation of objects
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Segregation in materials, enrichment of a material constituent at a free surface or an internal interface of a material
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Particle segregation, tendency of particulate solids to segregate by size, density, shape, and other properties
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Magnetic-activated cell sorting, a method for separation of various cell populations depending on their surface antigens
Other uses
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Segregate (taxonomy), created when a taxon is split off from another taxon
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Chromosome segregation
Chromosome segregation is the process in eukaryotes by which two sister chromatids formed as a consequence of DNA replication, or paired homologous chromosomes, separate from each other and migrate to opposite poles of the nucleus. This segreg ...
, the process that occurs during cell division whereby chromosomes separate and migrate to opposite ends of the cell
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Mendel's law of segregation, observation in Mendelian inheritance that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring
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Security segregation, regulatory rules requiring that customer assets be held separate from assets of a brokerage firm, on the broker's books
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Segregated cycle facilities, marked lanes, tracks, shoulders and paths designated for use by bicyclists
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Trail segregation, the practice of designating certain trails as having a specific preferred or exclusive use
See also
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Segment (disambiguation)
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Separate (disambiguation)
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