segregate
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• verb
To set apart from the rest or from each other; to isolate or divide into separate groups.
"The recycling facility uses automated optical sensors to segregate clear glass from colored bottles."
To enforce the separation of different racial, ethnic, or social groups within a country, community, or institution.
"For decades, discriminatory housing policies served to segregate neighborhoods along racial lines."
To separate into distinct alleles during meiosis so that each gamete carries only one allele for each gene (in genetics).
"Mendel's first law explains how pairs of heritable traits segregate randomly during the formation of reproductive cells."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the mid-16th century from the Latin past participle 'segregatus', from the verb 'segregare' ('to separate from the flock'), composed of 'se-' ('apart') and 'grex' ('flock' or 'herd').