Definition of Segregate
Segregate
seg·re·gate
Definition/Meaning
(verb)
to divide or isolate something or someone, or to set someone or something apart from the group or the general mass;
e.g. He told them to segregate the books by genre.
(verb)
to divide a society and separate/isolate people from it based on their race, religion, or sex;
e.g. The country continued to segregate its citizens based on their race for many years.
(verb)
in genetics, to be separated during the process of meiosis (a type of cell division) and to then be independently transmitted to the offspring by separate gametes, used to describe the behavior of pairs of alleles of genes;
e.g. These alleles segregate during the next stage of division.
(noun)
something or someone that has been divided or isolated in some way;
e.g. He belongs to the segregate group that was made to wait.
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