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• noun
A physical partition, strip, or barrier used to keep two or more items, spaces, or lanes apart.
"She placed plastic separators between the glass plates before packing them into the moving box."
A machine or apparatus used to divide a mixture into its distinct components, such as a centrifuge that separates cream from milk or oil from water.
"The dairy farm installed a high-speed mechanical separator to process raw milk more efficiently."
In computing and typography, a character, symbol, or whitespace used to mark the boundary between distinct data fields, numbers, or blocks of text.
"In many European countries, a comma is used as the decimal separator instead of a period."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the 17th century from Late Latin separator, an agent noun derived from separare ('to pull apart' or 'to divide').