isolation
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noun- 1.
(uncountable)(chiefly uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
She lived her final year in complete isolation, not wanting to see anybody.
Đồng nghĩa: aloneness, seclusion, aloneness, isolation, loneliness, loneness, onehead, oneship, onlyhood, onliness, seclusion, solitariness, solitude
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(countable, uncountable)The act of isolating.
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(countable, uncountable)(diplomacy, of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
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(countable, uncountable)(chemistry) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
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(countable, uncountable)(medicine) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
Upon returning from the field, he went into isolation for a week so as not to infect anyone with potential diseases.
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(countable, uncountable)(databases) A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
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(countable, uncountable)(psychology) A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.
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1800. From French isolation, from isolé, placed on an island (thus away from other people). Equivalent to isolate + -ion.