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isolation
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isolation
Noun
  • 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