Segregation

Segregation may refer to:

Separation of people

• Geographical segregation, rates of two or more populations which are not homogenous throughout a defined space
• School segregation
• Housing segregation
• Racial segregation, separation of humans into racial groups in daily life
  • Racial segregation in the United States
• Religious segregation, the separation of people according to their religion
• Residential segregation, the physical separation of two or more groups into different neighbourhoods
• Sex segregation, the physical, legal, and cultural separation of people according to their biological sex
• Occupational segregation, the distribution of people based upon demographic characteristics, most often gender, both across and within occupations and jobs
• Age segregation, separation of people based on their age and may be observed in many aspects of some societies
• Health segregation - see quarantine and isolation (health care). Segregation of the general public according to compliance with mandated measures issued by public health authorities, as per the global response to COVID-19 during 2020-2022.
• Segregation of inmates in prisons - see protective custody and solitary confinement.

Separation of objects

• Segregation in materials, enrichment of a material constituent at a free surface or an internal interface of a material
• Particle segregation, tendency of particulate solids to segregate by size, density, shape, and other properties
• Magnetic-activated cell sorting, a method for separation of various cell populations depending on their surface antigens

Other uses

• Segregate (taxonomy), created when a taxon is split off from another taxon
• Chromosome segregation, the process that occurs during cell division whereby chromosomes separate and migrate to opposite ends of the cell
• Mendel's law of segregation, observation in Mendelian inheritance that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring
• Security segregation, regulatory rules requiring that customer assets be held separate from assets of a brokerage firm, on the broker's books
• Segregated cycle facilities, marked lanes, tracks, shoulders and paths designated for use by bicyclists
• Trail segregation, the practice of designating certain trails as having a specific preferred or exclusive use

See also

• All pages with titles containing Segregation
• All pages with titles beginning with Segregation
• Segment (disambiguation)
• Separate (disambiguation)