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Article: separation
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- The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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sep·a·ra·tion
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ˌsepəˈrā
sh
ən
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n.
1.
the action or state of moving or being moved apart:
the damage that might arise from the separation of parents and children.
∎
the state in which a husband and wife remain married but live apart:
legal grounds for divorce or separation
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she and her husband have agreed to a
trial separation
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See also
legal separation
(sense 1).
2.
the division of something into constituent or distinct elements:
prose structured into short sentences with meaningful
separation into
paragraphs.
∎
the process of distinguishing between two or more things:
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