Separation Explained

Separation may refer to:

Films

• Separation (1967 film), a British feature film written by and starring Jane Arden and directed by Jack Bond
• La Séparation, 1994 French film
• A Separation, 2011 Iranian film
• Separation (2013 film), an American thriller film starring Sarah Manninen
• Separation (2021 film), an American horror film

Literature

• The Separation (Bury Novel), an 1830 novel by Lady Charlotte Bury
• The Separation (Priest novel), a 2002 novel by Christopher Priest
• The Separation (Applegate ovel), a 1999 novel in the Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate
• Separation, a 1976 Canadian political novel by Richard Rohmer

Music

• Separation, a 2011 album by Balance and Composure
• Separation (EP), a 2006 EP by Halou
• Separations (album), a 1992 album by British alternative rock band Pulp
• Separation (band), a Swedish straight edge hardcore punk band
• Separation mastering, in music recording

Law and politics

• Marital separation, when a married couple ceases living together without a divorce
  • Legal separation, a legal status where married couples may disentangle their finances without divorce
• Nonconformity to the world (separation from the world), a belief among some Protestant religious groups that the members of a church should be separate from "the world"
• Political separation (separatism), advocacy of a state of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental or gender separation from the larger group
• Separation of church and state, the idea that religion and government functions should be separate

Mathematics and science

• Separation (behavior), the behavior of flocking animals to stand off from their neighbours
• Separation (statistics), a problem encountered in fitting models for categorical outcomes
• Flow separation, separation of a fluid boundary layer from the surface of a solid body moving relative to the fluid
• Intertemporal portfolio choice#Time-independent decisions, where in some contexts portfolio choices for many periods can be made separately
• Separated sets, related concept in topology, two sets disjoint from the other's closure
• Separation axiom, concepts in the area of mathematics called topology
• Separation of concerns, in computer science (and problem-solving in general)
• Separation of variables, in mathematics to solve certain (separable) differential equations
• Separation principle, in control theory
• Separation process, in chemistry
• Separation theorem (disambiguation): several different theorems related to separation, in different scientific disciplines, for example:
  • Mutual fund separation theorem, allowing a portfolio optimization problem to be separated into smaller problems
• Point-pair separation, in an order two pairs of points may or may not separate each other

Other uses

• Separation (aeronautics), rules to minimise the risk of collision between aircraft in flight
• Separation (United States military), the process by which a service member leaves active duty
• Separation anxiety disorder, an anxiety disorder in which an individual experiences excessive anxiety regarding separation from home and/or from people to whom the individual has a strong emotional attachment
• Racial separation, the separation of different racial groups in daily life
• Six degrees of separation, the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person on earth
• Curdling of an emulsion in cookery is called "separation"

See also

• • • Divide (disambiguation)
• Fragmentation (disambiguation)
• Part (disambiguation)
• Segregation (disambiguation)
• Separate (disambiguation)
• Split (disambiguation)