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 warra ...
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 gran ...
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 concept in mathematical topology
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Separated space
In topology and related branches of mathematics, a Hausdorff space ( , ), separated space or T2 space is a topological space where, for any two distinct points, there exist neighbourhoods of each which are disjoint from each other. Of the many ...
, 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 : ...
, a concept in algebraic geometry analogous to that of separated space in topology
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conjoined twins
Conjoined twins – sometimes popularly referred to as Siamese twins – are twins joined '' in utero''. A very rare phenomenon, the occurrence is estimated to range from 1 in 49,000 births to 1 in 189,000 births, with a somewhat higher incidence ...
, a procedure that allows them to live independently.
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Separation (United States military) In the US 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 (ETS) and are released from acti ...
, status of U.S. military personnel after release from active duty, but still having reserve obligations
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