separation
英 [sep?'re??(?)n]美[,s?p?'re??n]
- n. 分離，分開；間隔，距離；[法] 分居；缺口
英英釋意
- 1. the act of dividing or disconnecting
- 2. coming apart
- 3. the state of lacking unity
- 4. the distance between things;
- "fragile items require separation and cushioning"
- 5. sorting one thing from others;
- "the separation of wheat from chaff"
- "the separation of mail by postal zones"
- 6. the social act of separating or parting company;
- "the separation of church and state"
- 7. the space where a division or parting occurs;
- "he hid in the separation between walls"
- 8. termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)
- 9. (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)
