∙ The state of being isolated, detached, or separated. chiefly uncountable
∙ The state of being away from other people.
∙ The act of isolating.
∙ The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries). diplomacy, of a country
∙ The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture chemistry
∙ The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others medicine
∙ a database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions. databases