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Segregation

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Segregation may refer to:

Separation of people

  • Geographical segregation, rates of two or more populations which are not homogenous throughout a defined space
  • Educational segegration
  • Housing segregation
  • Racial segregation, separation of humans into racial groups in daily life
  • Religious segregation, the separation of people according to their religion
  • Residential segregation, the physical separation of two or more groups into different neighbourhoods
  • Sex segregation, the physical, legal, and cultural separation of people according to their biological sex
  • Occupational segregation, the distribution of people based upon demographic characteristics, most often gender, both across and within occupations and jobs
  • Age segregation, separation of people based on their age and may be observed in many aspects of some societies

Separation of objects

  • Segregation in materials, enrichment of a material constituent at a free surface or an internal interface of a material
  • Particle segregation, tendency of particulate solids to segregate by size, density, shape, and other properties
  • Magnetic-activated cell sorting, a method for separation of various cell populations depending on their surface antigens

Other uses

  • Segregate (taxonomy), created when a taxon is split off from another taxon
  • Chromosome segregation, the process that occurs during cell division whereby chromosomes separate and migrate to opposite ends of the cell
  • Mendel's law of segregation, observation in Mendelian inheritance that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring
  • Security segregation, regulatory rules requiring that customer assets be held separate from assets of a brokerage firm, on the broker's books
  • Segregated cycle facilities, marked lanes, tracks, shoulders and paths designated for use by bicyclists
  • Trail segregation, the practice of designating certain trails as having a specific preferred or exclusive use

See also

  • All pages with titles containing Segregation
  • All pages with titles beginning with Segregation
  • Segment (disambiguation)
  • Separate (disambiguation)
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