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   Seg·re·ga·tion

   /ˌseɡrəˈɡāSH(ə)n/

   

   noun

   • 1. the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others: "a model that perpetuates the segregation of older people"
   • ▪ the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment: "an official policy of racial segregation"
   • 2. the separation of pairs of alleles at meiosis and their independent transmission via separate gametes.

   Derivatives

   • 1. segregational adjective

   Scrabble Points: 13

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