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单词 segregation
释义

segregation

/ˌsɛɡrɪˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n /
noun
1 [mass noun] The action or state of setting someone or something apart from others: the segregation of pupils with learning difficulties...
  • Both are oil towns with amazingly strict class segregation.
  • Several spoke about the need for more and better publicised youth facilities, an end to segregation in schools, and the problem of drug dealers in their communities.
  • It is also a city of exploitation and segregation and fear.

Synonyms

separation, setting apart, keeping apart, sorting out;
isolation, quarantine, insulation, exclusion, closeting, protection, shielding, partitioning;
division, detachment, disconnection, dissociation;
sequestration, partition
in South Africa, historical apartheid
1.1The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment: an official policy of racial segregation...
  • This meant that states - especially in the South - would no longer be able to justify laws which enforced segregation along racial lines.
  • The commonly held meaning of apartheid is a regime of government that enshrines racial segregation in law.
  • Apartheid enforced the oppressive dominance of a white European elite through segregation along purely racial lines.
2 Genetics The separation of pairs of alleles at meiosis and their independent transmission via separate gametes.High fidelity of meiotic chromosome segregation is essential for the propagation of all sexually reproducing organisms....
  • Meiotic chromosome segregation is initiated when tension signals the bipolar attachment of microtubules to each homolog pair.
  • No regions of the genome exhibited nonrandom segregation of any markers in the unaffected females tested.

Derivatives

segregational

adjective ...
  • However, although Mendelian inheritance may be incorporated into a game theoretic approach, standard matrix game models are defined solely in terms of phenotypes and ignore the segregational effects of Mendelian inheritance.
  • Under this new practice of segregational nationalism African American students and faculty will find themselves merged into the great American melting pot and ultimately not represented at all.
  • Continued practices of duplicating programs when geography and demand dictate otherwise clearly points to a segregational vestige.

segregationist

/ˌsɛɡrɪˈɡeɪʃ(ə)nɪst / adjective & noun (in the racial sense) ...
  • During his childhood the city of Austin's racial segregationist policies were being codified and enforced, assuring that East Austin would be comprised exclusively of ethnic minorities.
  • The senses were critical to helping segregationists shore up what was supposedly stable but was always in danger of unraveling.
  • Relations between blacks and Republicans began spiraling downward during the 1964 presidential campaign when Barry Goldwater openly courted white segregationists.
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