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Definition of Isolation

1. Noun. A state of separation between persons or groups.

2. Noun. A feeling of being disliked and alone.

3. Noun. The act of isolating something; setting something apart from others.

4. Noun. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it.

5. Noun. A country's withdrawal from international politics. "He opposed a policy of American isolation"

Definition of Isolation

1. n. The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness.

Definition of Isolation

1. Noun. (chiefly uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated. ¹

2. Noun. The act of isolating. ¹

3. Noun. (diplomacy of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries). ¹

4. Noun. (chemistry) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture ¹

5. Noun. (medicine) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others ¹

6. Noun. (computing) a database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Isolation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Isolation

1. Any procedure in which a given species of organism, present in a particular sample or environment, is obtained in pure culture. (15 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Isolation

isolated isolated abutment isolated dextrocardia isolated dyskeratosis follicularis isolated explosive disorder isolated limb perfusion isolated parietal endocarditis isolated proteinuria isolated system isolatedly

isolatedness isolateral isolates isolating isolating(a) isolation isolationism isolationisms isolationist isolationistic

isolationists isolations isolator isolators isolead isoleads isolecithal isolecithal egg isolecithal ovum isolect

Literary usage of Isolation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"Isolation In theory isolation is the most perfect single method to check the ... Because the isolation of the reported cases represents only a portion of ..."

2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"United States—Continued Our splendid isolation gone, what next? W: H. Foreign and domestic ... R of Rs 53:604-5 My '16 Isolation or world leadership? ..."

3. Darwin and After Darwin: An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a by George John Romanes, Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1897)
"For the isolation is here discriminate, or effected by the initial difference ... It may here be remarked that, in his essay on the Influence of Isolation, ..."

4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1898)
"physiological selection, or any of the other forms of isolation—then there will be as many lines of divergent evolution going on at the same time (and here ..."

5. The Yoga-system of Patañjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man : an Interpretation by Patañjali, Vyāsa, Vācaspatimiśra (1914)
"Isolation is said to follow after the sequence of the task of the aspects ... IsolatIon Is the inverse generation of the aspects, no longer provided with a ..."

6. Hygiene of Communicable Diseases: A Handbook for Sanitarians, Medical by Francis Merton Munson, John Harington, Francis Randolph Packard, Fielding Hudson Garrison (1920)
"A knowledge of these factors makes clear the reason for the frequent failure of isolation and indicates the degree of isolation necessary with the different ..."

7. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"Isolation In theory isolation is the most perfect single method to check the ... Because the isolation of the reported cases represents only a portion of ..."

8. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"United States—Continued Our splendid isolation gone, what next? W: H. Foreign and domestic ... R of Rs 53:604-5 My '16 Isolation or world leadership? ..."

9. Darwin and After Darwin: An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a by George John Romanes, Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1897)
"For the isolation is here discriminate, or effected by the initial difference ... It may here be remarked that, in his essay on the Influence of Isolation, ..."

10. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1898)
"physiological selection, or any of the other forms of isolation—then there will be as many lines of divergent evolution going on at the same time (and here ..."

11. The Yoga-system of Patañjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man : an Interpretation by Patañjali, Vyāsa, Vācaspatimiśra (1914)
"Isolation is said to follow after the sequence of the task of the aspects ... IsolatIon Is the inverse generation of the aspects, no longer provided with a ..."

12. Hygiene of Communicable Diseases: A Handbook for Sanitarians, Medical by Francis Merton Munson, John Harington, Francis Randolph Packard, Fielding Hudson Garrison (1920)
"A knowledge of these factors makes clear the reason for the frequent failure of isolation and indicates the degree of isolation necessary with the different ..."

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