isolation, closing off
(noun) the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others
isolation
(noun) a country’s withdrawal from international politics; “he opposed a policy of American isolation”
isolation
(noun) a feeling of being disliked and alone
isolation
(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it
isolation
(noun) a state of separation between persons or groups
Source: WordNet® 3.1
isolation (countable and uncountable, plural isolations)
(chiefly, uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated.
The state of being away from other people.
The act of isolating.
(diplomacy, of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
(chemistry) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
(medicine) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others
(databases) a database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
Source: Wiktionary
I`so*la"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. isolation.]
Definition: The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness. Milman.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 November 2024
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
