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Segregation
01
the act or condition of setting a person or object apart from a group
02
the policy of separating a group of people from the rest based on racial, sexual, or religious grounds and discriminating against them
Example
The census form asked respondents to indicate their ethnicity.
She takes pride in her ethnicity and loves sharing her cultural traditions.
The school's diversity program celebrates students of every ethnicity.
03
(genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes
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segreg
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segregate
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segregation
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desegregation
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desegregation
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segregationism
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segregationism
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segregationist
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segregationist
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