- the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
- the institutional separation of an ethnic, racial, religious, or other minority group from the dominant majority.
- the state or condition of being segregated, set apart, separated, or restricted to one group: Segregation on buses meant that the seats at the front were reserved for white passengers.the segregation of private clubs.
- something segregated, or set apart.
- the separation of allelic genes into different gametes during meiosis.
- the act of segregating or state of being segregated
- the practice or policy of creating separate facilities within the same society for the use of a minority group
- the separation at meiosis of the two members of any pair of alleles into separate gametes
- the process in which a component of an alloy or solid solution separates in small regions within the solid or on the solid's surface
