Separated can refer to:
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Marital separation
Marital separation occurs when spouses in a marriage stop living together without getting divorced. Married couples may separate as an initial step in the divorce process or to gain perspective on the marriage and determine whether divorce is warr ...
of spouses
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Legal separation
Legal separation (sometimes judicial separation, separate maintenance, divorce ', or divorce from bed-and-board) is a legal process by which a married couple may formalize a separation while remaining legally married. A legal separation is gra ...
of spouses
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"Separated" (song), song by Avant
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Separated sets
In topology and related branches of mathematics, separated sets are pairs of subsets of a given topological space that are related to each other in a certain way: roughly speaking, neither overlapping nor touching. The notion of when two sets a ...
, a concept in mathematical topology
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Separated space
In topology and related branches of mathematics, a Hausdorff space ( , ), T2 space or separated space, is a topological space where distinct points have disjoint neighbourhoods. Of the many separation axioms that can be imposed on a topologica ...
, a synonym for Hausdorff space, a concept in mathematical topology
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Separated morphism In algebraic geometry, given a morphism of schemes p: X \to S, the diagonal morphism
:\delta: X \to X \times_S X
is a morphism determined by the universal property of the fiber product X \times_S X of ''p'' and ''p'' applied to the identity 1_X : X ...
, a concept in algebraic geometry analogous to that of separated space in topology
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conjoined twins
Conjoined twins, popularly referred to as Siamese twins, are twins joined '' in utero''. It is a very rare phenomenon, estimated to occur in anywhere between one in 50,000 births to one in 200,000 births, with a somewhat higher incidence in south ...
, a procedure that allows them to live independently.
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Separation (United States military)
In the United States Armed Forces, separation means that a person is leaving active duty but not necessarily the service entirely. Separation typically occurs when someone reaches the date of their Expiration of Term of Service and are released fro ...
, status of U.S. military personnel after release from active duty, but still having reserve obligations
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