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See séparation

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

The act of separating or the condition of being separated
The place at which a division occurs
An interval, gap or space that separates things
An agreement terminating a relationship between husband and wife, but short of a divorce

Translations

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Portuguese: separação

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Portuguese: separação

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Portuguese: separação

: אבדלתא (avdaltah) (2, 3)

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Separation \Sep`a*ra"tion\, n. [L. separatio: cf. F.
s['e]paration.]
The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or
separate. Specifically:
(a) Chemical analysis.
(b) Divorce.
(c) (Steam Boilers) The operation of removing water from
steam.
[1913 Webster]

Judicial separation (Law), a form of divorce; a separation
of man and wife which has the effect of making each a
single person for all legal purposes but without ability
to contract a new marriage. --Mozley & W.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet separation
n 1: the act of dividing or disconnecting
2: coming apart [syn: breakup, detachment]
3: the state of lacking unity [ant: union]
4: the distance between things; "fragile items require
separation and cushioning" [syn: interval]
5: sorting one thing from others; "the separation of wheat from
chaff"; "the separation of mail by postal zones"
6: the social act of separating or parting company; "the
separation of church and state"
7: the space where a division or parting occurs; "he hid in the
separation between walls"
8: termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)
9: (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either
by mutual agreement or under a court order) [syn: {legal
separation}]

Moby Dictionary
Jim Crow , aberration , aesthetic distance , alien , alienation ,
alteration , analysis , analyzation , anatomization , anatomizing ,
anatomy , annulment , apartheid , apartness , assay , assaying ,
atomization , barrier , bolting , brattice , breach ,
breach of friendship , break , breakdown , breaking down , breaking up ,
breakup , broken home , broken marriage , buffer , buffer state ,
bulkhead , bumper , centrifugence , change , clarification , clearance ,
cleavage , cleft , cloison , colature , collision mat , color bar ,
compass , contradistinction , cordon , cordon sanitaire ,
cordoning off , cushion , deactivation , decentralization ,
decree of nullity , deep space , demarcation , demobilization ,
deployment , depths of space , destructive distillation ,
desynonymization , detachment , deviation , diaphragm , diaspora ,
dichotomy , differencing , differentiation , disaffection ,
disassociation , disbandment , disconnection , discrimination ,
disequalization , disfavor , disintegration , disjointedness ,
disjunction , dismemberment , dismissal , disorganization , dispersal ,
dispersion , disruption , dissection , dissepiment , dissociation ,
dissolution , dissolution of marriage , distance , distillation ,
distinction , distinctiveness , distinguishment , disunion , disunity ,
divarication , divergence , divergency , diversification , dividedness ,
dividing line , dividing wall , division , divorce , divorcement ,
docimasy , edulcoration , elution , elutriation , essentialization ,
estrangement , ethnocentrism , exclusiveness , extent , extraction ,
falling-out , fanning , fanning out , farness , fender , filtering ,
filtration , fission , foreigner , fracture , fracturing ,
fragmentation , grasswidowhood , gravimetric analysis , hairsplitting ,
individualization , individuation , infinity , insularity , insulation ,
interlocutory decree , interseptum , isolation , isolationism ,
keeping apart , know-nothingism , leaching , leeway , length ,
light-years , lixiviation , margin , mat , microscopic distinction ,
midriff , midsection , mileage , modification , narrowness ,
nice distinction , nuance , open rupture , out-group , outcast ,
outsider , pad , panel , paries , parochialism , parsecs ,
particularization , parting , partition , party wall , percolation ,
persona non grata , personalization , perspective , piece , privacy ,
privatism , privatization , property line , proximate analysis ,
purification , quantitative analysis , quarantine , quarantine flag ,
race hatred , racial segregation , range , reach ,
recall of ambassadors , recess , reclusion , reduction to elements ,
refinement , release , remoteness , resolution , retirement , retreat ,
riddling , rift , rupture , rustication , sanitary cordon , schism ,
scission , screening , seclusion , secrecy , segmentation , segregation ,
semimicroanalysis , separate maintenance , separateness , separatism ,
septulum , septum , sequestration , severalization , severance ,
shade of difference , shattering , shedding , shock pad , sieving ,
sifting , snobbishness , space , span , specialization ,
spiritualization , splaying , splendid isolation , split , split-up ,
splitting , spread , spreading , spreading out , straining , stranger ,
stretch , stride , subdivision , sublimation , subtle distinction ,
tightness , trichoschistism , trichotomy , variation , wall , way , ways ,
winnowing , withdrawal , xenophobia , yellow flag , yellow jack

SEPARATION, contracts. When the husband and wife agree to live apart they are said to have made a separation. 2. Contracts of this kind are generally made by the husband for himself and by the wife with trustees. 4 Paige's R. 516; 3 Paige's R. 483; 5 Bligh, N. S. 339; 1 Dow & Clark, 519. This contract does not affect the marriage, and the parties may, at any time agree to live together as husband and wife. The husband who has agreed to a total separation cannot bring an action for criminal conversation with the wife. Roper, Hush. and Wife, passim; 4 Vin. Ab. 173; 2 Stark. Ev. 698; Shelf. on Mar. & Div. ch. 6, p. 608. 3. Reconciliation after separation supersedes special articles of separation in courts of law and equity. 1 Dowl. P. C. 245; 2 Cox, R. 105; 3 Bro. C. C. 619, n.; 11 Ves. 532. Public policy forbids that parties should be permitted to make agreements for themselves to hold good whenever they choose to live separate. 5 Bligh, N. S. 367, 375; and see 1 Carr. & P. 36. See 5 Bligh, N. S. 339; 2 Dowl. P. C. 332; 2 C. & M. 388; 3 John. Ch. R. 521; 2 Sim. & Stu. 372; 1 Edw. R. 380; Desaus. R. 45, 198; 1 Y. & C. 28; 11 Ves. 526; 2 East, R. 283; 8 N. H. Rep. 350; 1 Hoff. R. 1.