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Definition of Separating
1. a. Designed or employed to separate.
Definition of Separating
1. Verb. (present participle of separate) ¹
2. Noun. An act of the verb to separate ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Separating
1. separate [v] - See also: separate
Medical Definition of Separating
1.
Designed or employed to separate.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Separating
Literary usage of Separating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"On the east a sound stretched from Labrador to Alabama, separating an island
known as Old Appalachia, which extended east beyond the present coast. ..."
2. Standard methods of chemical analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1917)
"... separating Iron, Aluminum, and Manganese with Ammonia and Bromine General.
This method is especially adapted to material low in silica, alumin.i. iron, ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"Having the power of separating and ejecting excrements. what wil! not so be changed.
... ing the quality of separating and ejecting superfluous parts. ..."
4. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1917)
"If copper or cadmium are present in quantities, the titration in acid solution,
separating Zn as ZnS, is to be preferred for accurate work. ..."
5. Fundamentals of Educational Measurement with the Elements of Statistical Method by Chester Arthur Gregory (1922)
"Criteria for separating the Normal from the Subnormal.—There are various ways of
separating the normal from the subnormal. They are sometimes designated as: ..."