segregation

noun9

1. •
   The act of setting apart and organizing things based upon their characteristics.
2. •
   The separation of people based upon race, sex, religion, or other identity in institutions.
3. •
   The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
4. •
   The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
5. •
   Separation for practical reasons, by necessity.
6. •
   The separation of a subset of prisoners from the general prison population, possibly solitary confinement.
7. •
   The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
8. •
   The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis
9. •
   Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.