separation
/sepəˈreɪʃən/noun
mass noun
1
- the action or state of moving or being moved apart分开; 分离：
the damage that might arise from the separation of parents and children.
父母与子女分离可能产生的伤害。
1.1
- the state in which a husband and wife remain married but live apart（夫妻的）分居：
legal grounds for divorce or separation
离婚或分居的合法理由
count noun she and her husband have agreed to a trial separation.她与丈夫同意试分居。参见LEGAL SEPARATION （义项1）。
2
- the division of something into constituent or distinct elements分; 分成：
prose structured into short sentences with meaningful separation into paragraphs.
分成有意义的段落, 再分拆成短句的散文。
2.1
- the process of distinguishing between two or more things辨别; 区分：
religion involved the separation of the sacred and the profane
宗教涉及区分神圣和亵渎
count noun the constitution imposed a clear separation between Church and state.宪法清楚地规定了政教分离。
2.2
- the process of sorting and then extracting or removing a specified substance for use or rejection离析。
2.3
- short for COLOUR SEPARATION.
2.4
- （亦作stereo separation）distinction or difference between the signals carried by the two channels of a stereophonic system（立体声系统的）通道分隔。
2.5
- Physics & Aeronautics the generation of a turbulent boundary layer between the surface of a body and a moving fluid, or between two fluids moving at different speeds【物理, 航空】流体分离。
短语
separation of powers
- an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judiciary powers of government in separate bodies（政府中立法、行政、司法的）三权分立。
词源
late Middle English: via Old French from Latin separatio（n-）, from separare 'disjoin, divide' （see SEPARATE）.