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What does segregation mean?

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Noun
  1. The setting apart or separation of things or people, as a natural process, a manner of organizing people that may be voluntary or enforced by law.
  2. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (biology) The Mendelian Law of Segregation related to genetic transmission or geographical segregation of various species.
  3. (mineralogy) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
  4. (sociology) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
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Some consist of pear-shaped segregation vesicles with amygdales at their upper margin.
The people who defended segregation are the same folks who are homophobes today.
As those who could afford to left, racial segregation in the area worsened.
The law defines the use of terms such as harassment, sexual harassment, stalking and abetment to discrimination and racial segregation.
By challenging segregation, King threatened the very root of white supremacy in the United States.
It is distressing to see the impulse for integration give way to calls for segregation.

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