Segregation may refer to:

Separation of people

Geographical segregation Geographical segregation exists whenever the proportions of population rates of two or more populations are not homogeneous throughout a defined space. Populations can be considered any plant or animal species, human genders, followers of a certai ...

, rates of two or more populations which are not homogenous throughout a defined space * School segregation *

Housing segregation In the United States, housing segregation is the practice of denying African Americans and other minority groups equal access to housing through the process of misinformation, denial of realty and financing services, and racial steering. Hous ...

Racial segregation Racial segregation is the separation of people into race (human classification), racial or other Ethnicity, ethnic groups in daily life. Segregation can involve the spatial separation of the races, and mandatory use of different institutions, ...

, separation of humans into racial groups in daily life **

Racial segregation in the United States Facilities and services such as housing, healthcare, education, employment, and transportation have been systematically separated in the United States based on racial categorizations. Notably, racial segregation in the United States was the leg ...

* Religious segregation, the separation of people according to their religion *

Residential segregation Residential segregation is a concept in urban sociology which refers to the voluntary or forced spatial separation of different socio-cultural, ethnic, or racial groups within residential areas. It is often associated with immigration, wealth ineq ...

, the physical separation of two or more groups into different neighbourhoods *

Sex segregation Sex segregation, sex separation, sex partition, gender segregation, gender separation, or gender partition is the physical, legal, or cultural separation of people according to their gender or Sex, biological sex at any age. Sex segregation ca ...

, the physical, legal, and cultural separation of people according to their biological sex *

Occupational segregation Occupational segregation is the distribution of workers across and within occupations, based upon demographic characteristics, most often gender. More types of occupational segregation include racial and ethnicity segregation, and sexual orientat ...

, 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 * Health segregation - see

quarantine A quarantine is a restriction on the movement of people, animals, and goods which is intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests. It is often used in connection to disease and illness, preventing the movement of those who may have bee ...

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isolation (health care) In health care facilities, isolation represents one of several measures that can be taken to implement in infection control: the prevention of communicable diseases from being transmitted from a patient to other patients, health care workers, ...

* Segregation of inmates in prisons - see

protective custody Protective custody (PC) is a type of imprisonment (or care) to protect a person from harm, either from outside sources or other prisoners. Many prison administrators believe the level of violence, or the underlying threat of violence within pris ...

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solitary confinement Solitary confinement (also shortened to solitary) is a form of imprisonment in which an incarcerated person lives in a single Prison cell, cell with little or no contact with other people. It is a punitive tool used within the prison system to ...

Separation of objects

Segregation in materials In materials science, segregation is the enrichment of atoms, ions, or molecules at a microscopic region in a materials system. While the terms segregation and adsorption are essentially synonymous, in practice, segregation is often used to descri ...

, enrichment of a material constituent at a free surface or an internal interface of a material *

Particle segregation In particle segregation, particulate solids, and also quasi-solids such as foams, tend to segregate by virtue of differences in the size, and also physical properties such as volume, density, shape and other properties of particles of which they ...

, tendency of particulate solids to segregate by size, density, shape, and other properties *

Magnetic-activated cell sorting Magnetic-activated cell sorting (MACS) is a method for separation of various cell populations depending on their surface antigens ( CD molecules) invented by Miltenyi Biotec. The name MACS is a registered trademark of the company. The method wa ...

, a method for separation of various cell populations depending on their surface antigens

Other uses

Segregate (taxonomy) In taxonomy, a segregate, or a segregate taxon is created when a taxon is split off from another taxon. This other taxon will be better known, usually bigger, and will continue to exist, even after the segregate taxon has been split off. A segregat ...

, created when a taxon is split off from another taxon *

Chromosome segregation Chromosome segregation is the process in eukaryotes by which two sister chromatids formed as a consequence of DNA replication, or paired homologous chromosomes, separate from each other and migrate to opposite poles of the nucleus. This segreg ...

, the process that occurs during cell division whereby chromosomes separate and migrate to opposite ends of the cell *

Mendel's law of segregation Mendelian inheritance (also known as Mendelism) is a type of biological inheritance following the principles originally proposed by Gregor Mendel in 1865 and 1866, re-discovered in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns, and later popularized by ...

, observation in Mendelian inheritance that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring *

Security segregation Security segregation or client funds, in the context of the securities industry, refers to regulatory rules requiring that customer assets In financial accounting, an asset is any resource owned or controlled by a business or an economic entity. ...

, regulatory rules requiring that customer assets be held separate from assets of a brokerage firm, on the broker's books *

Segregated cycle facilities Segregation may refer to: Separation of people * Geographical segregation, rates of two or more populations which are not homogenous throughout a defined space * School segregation * Housing segregation * Racial segregation, separation of huma ...

, marked lanes, tracks, shoulders and paths designated for use by bicyclists *

Trail segregation A trail, also known as a path or track, is an unpaved lane or a small paved road (though it can also be a route along a navigable waterways) generally not intended for usage by motorized vehicles, usually passing through a natural area. How ...

, the practice of designating certain trails as having a specific preferred or exclusive use

Separation of people

Separation of objects

Other uses

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