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==Origins==
Latin spart-, ppl. stem of sparre, f. s + parre to make ready, [[preparation|prepare]].
==Definitions==
1. a. The [[action]] of separating or parting, of setting or keeping apart; the [[state]] of being separated or parted. to make separation, to make a severance or division.
:b. U.S. Resignation or dismissal from employment, a [[university]], etc.; discharge from the armed forces.
:c. separation of [[powers]] [[Politics]]: the vesting of the legislative, executive, and judiciary powers of [[government]] in separate [[bodies]].
*2. The [[action]] of separating oneself, withdrawing, or parting company. to make separation, to withdraw, go apart.
*3. Cessation of conjugal cohabitation, either by mutual consent of the parties or imposed by a judicial decree granted at the suit of one of them. judicial separation: the name now given to the ‘divorce a mensa et thoro’ of the older English [[law]]:
*4. A sect of separatists or [[dissent]]ers from the Church; esp. in the 17th cent., the body of Protestant nonconformists [[collective]]ly. Obs.
*5. A separated portion, a division. Obs.
*6. The place where two or more objects separate or are divided from one another; a parting, line of division.
*7. Something that separates or effects a division or partition; an [[interval]] or break between two objects; a cause of separating. rare.
*8. [[Alchemy]]. and Old [[Chemistry]]. A [[process]] of [[analysis]], extraction, or the like. water of separation
*9.. [[Medicine]]. The process by which dead tissue becomes detached from the sound [[flesh]].
*10. [[Navigation]]. = DEPARTURE 7a. Obs.0
*11. [[Mathematics]]. The division of a partition into component partitions. Cf. SEPARATE n. 4.
*12.. [[Photography]]. and [[Prints|Printing]]. a. Each of three or more monochrome reproductions of a [[colour]]ed picture, made in different colours in such a way that they combine to reproduce the full colour of the [[original]].
:b. The process of obtaining a set of monochrome reproductions of a coloured picture in each of which the [[tone]]s correspond to the proportions of a particular colour in the original.
13. [[Physics]] The separation of the [[boundary]] layer from the [[surface]] of a [[body]] moving [[relative]] to the surrounding fluid.
14. Distinction or [[difference]] between the signals carried by the two [[channels]] of a stereophonic [[system]]; a [[measure]] of this.
[[Category: General Reference]]
==Origins==
Latin spart-, ppl. stem of sparre, f. s + parre to make ready, [[preparation|prepare]].
==Definitions==
1. a. The [[action]] of separating or parting, of setting or keeping apart; the [[state]] of being separated or parted. to make separation, to make a severance or division.
:b. U.S. Resignation or dismissal from employment, a [[university]], etc.; discharge from the armed forces.
:c. separation of [[powers]] [[Politics]]: the vesting of the legislative, executive, and judiciary powers of [[government]] in separate [[bodies]].
*2. The [[action]] of separating oneself, withdrawing, or parting company. to make separation, to withdraw, go apart.
*3. Cessation of conjugal cohabitation, either by mutual consent of the parties or imposed by a judicial decree granted at the suit of one of them. judicial separation: the name now given to the ‘divorce a mensa et thoro’ of the older English [[law]]:
*4. A sect of separatists or [[dissent]]ers from the Church; esp. in the 17th cent., the body of Protestant nonconformists [[collective]]ly. Obs.
*5. A separated portion, a division. Obs.
*6. The place where two or more objects separate or are divided from one another; a parting, line of division.
*7. Something that separates or effects a division or partition; an [[interval]] or break between two objects; a cause of separating. rare.
*8. [[Alchemy]]. and Old [[Chemistry]]. A [[process]] of [[analysis]], extraction, or the like. water of separation
*9.. [[Medicine]]. The process by which dead tissue becomes detached from the sound [[flesh]].
*10. [[Navigation]]. = DEPARTURE 7a. Obs.0
*11. [[Mathematics]]. The division of a partition into component partitions. Cf. SEPARATE n. 4.
*12.. [[Photography]]. and [[Prints|Printing]]. a. Each of three or more monochrome reproductions of a [[colour]]ed picture, made in different colours in such a way that they combine to reproduce the full colour of the [[original]].
:b. The process of obtaining a set of monochrome reproductions of a coloured picture in each of which the [[tone]]s correspond to the proportions of a particular colour in the original.
13. [[Physics]] The separation of the [[boundary]] layer from the [[surface]] of a [[body]] moving [[relative]] to the surrounding fluid.
14. Distinction or [[difference]] between the signals carried by the two [[channels]] of a stereophonic [[system]]; a [[measure]] of this.
[[Category: General Reference]]
