English
isolation
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/
Noun

isolation

  1. (chiefly, uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
    She lived her final year in complete isolation, not wanting to see anybody.
  2. The act of isolating.
  3. (diplomacy, of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
  4. (chemistry) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
  5. (medicine) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
    Upon returning from the field, he went into isolation for a week so as not to infect anyone with potential diseases.
  6. (databases) A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
  7. (psychology) A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.
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  • Portuguese: isolamento


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