Noun: segregation ,se-gru'gey-shun
- A social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
"The civil rights movement fought against racial segregation in schools";
- separatism
- The act of segregating or sequestering
"segregation of the jury";
- sequestration
- (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes
"Mendelian segregation explains the inheritance patterns of many traits"
Derived forms: segregations
Type of: biological process, organic process, separation, social organisation [Brit], social organization, social structure, social system, structure
Antonym: desegregation
Part of: meiosis, reduction division
Encyclopedia: Segregation