isolation
/ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/
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
- plural
- isolations
Meanings
- 1
The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people
- 2
The act of isolating
- 3
The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries)
- 4
The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixturerare
- 5
The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others — compare: quarantinerare
- 6
A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactionsrare
- 7
A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thoughtrare