isolation
Pronunciation: /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/
The English word “isolation” has 7 meanings listed here.
noun
- The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
- The act of isolating.
- The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
- The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
- The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
- A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
- A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.
Etymology
First attested in 1800. From French isolation, from isolé, placed on an island (thus away from other people). Equivalent to isolate + -ion.
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More English words
- isolatedness
- isolatee
- isolateral
- isolating
- isolation pay
- isolation play
- isolation tank
- isolation transformer
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