Separation

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Separation may refer to:

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Literature

Music

Law and politics

  • Marital separation, when a married couple ceases living together without a divorce
    • Legal separation, a legal status where married couples may disentangle their finances without divorce
  • Nonconformity to the world (separation from the world), a belief among some Protestant religious groups that the members of a church should be separate from "the world"
  • Political separation (separatism), advocacy of a state of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental or gender separation from the larger group
  • Separation of church and state, the idea that religion and government functions should be separate

Mathematics and science

Other uses

  • Separation (aeronautics), rules to minimise the risk of collision between aircraft in flight
  • Separation (United States military), the process by which a service member leaves active duty
  • Separation anxiety disorder, an anxiety disorder in which an individual experiences excessive anxiety regarding separation from home and/or from people to whom the individual has a strong emotional attachment
  • Racial separation, the separation of different racial groups in daily life
  • Six degrees of separation, the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person on earth
  • Curdling of an emulsion in cookery is called "separation"
  • Cow-calf separation, practice of separating calves and mothers in the dairy industry

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