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What is the noun for segregating?

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segregation
  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).
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “It is distressing to see the impulse for integration give way to calls for segregation.”
      “By challenging segregation, King threatened the very root of white supremacy in the United States.”
      “As those who could afford to left, racial segregation in the area worsened.”
segregationalism
  1. (rare) Segregationism; the support or practice of segregating racial, ethnic, or religious groups.
  2. (by extension) The isolation of a person or group of people to achieve a specific end.
  3. (linguistics) The stance that linguistic signs act (or approach acting) as fixed codes with invariant pairings of form and meaning.
  4. (by extension) The conflation of sign and meaning.
segregationalist
  1. (rare) A segregationist; a supporter of racial, ethnic, or religious segregation.
  2. (linguistics) One who believes that linguistic signs have meaning independent of the context of their use in communication.
segregator
  1. One who segregates.
  2. A device for collecting separate samples of urine from the two kidneys.
  3. Examples:
    1. “It gives the segregator and intolerant a false sense of inferiority.”
segrosome
  1. (biochemistry) A protein complex that functions during the segregation of plasmids or chromosomes during bacterial cell division
segregant
  1. (genetics) An organism that is the result of segregation; a segregate
segregationism
  1. (politics) A belief in (usually racial) segregation.
  2. Examples:
    1. “By then, segregationism and protectionism had become reframed within an autonomy and rights model.”
      “The extreme opposites in the theory of fiction are sometimes characterized as forms of segregationism and integrationism.”
      “But his grim picture of an emerging global segregationism clearly contained troubling local significance.”
segregationist
  1. A person who supports or believes in segregation.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The segregationist advocated for the implementation of strict racial segregation policies in schools and public spaces.”
      “But what everyone failed to reckon with was not only the impassioned sentiments of segregationist whites, but also those of Mrs. Richardson.”
      “Civil-rights tourism is on the rise in the southern US, as the former segregationist states disinter their past.”
segregationalists
  1. plural of segregationalist
segregationists
  1. plural of segregationist
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He predicted further incursions by the segregationists if this move was left unchallenged.”
      “On balance, these congressmen were no more effective than the segregationists.”
      “Tests for literacy, such a boon to segregationists, received a blow from the Supreme Court this week.”
segregations
  1. plural of segregation
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The ring was even seeking Carey Act segregations on land where timber grew.”
      “Locally diffuse silicified zones, quartz veins, alunite veins, and pyrite veins and segregations ramify through the altered rocks.”
      “Near the ores there are likely to be granitic rocks, which, like the ores, seem to be segregations from the norite magma.”
segregators
  1. plural of segregator
segregants
  1. plural of segregant
segrosomes
  1. plural of segrosome
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