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v. To set apart or cut off from others.

v. To place in quarantine.

v. Chemistry To separate (a substance) in pure form from a combined mixture.

v. To render free of external influence; insulate.

v. Microbiology To separate (a pure strain) from a mixed bacterial or fungal culture.

v. Psychology To separate (experiences or memories) from the emotions relating to them.

v. Electricity To set apart (a component, circuit, or system) from a source of electricity.

v. Electricity To insulate or shield.

adj. Solitary; alone.

n. A person, thing, or group that has been isolated, as by geographic, ecologic, or social barriers.

n. Biology A population of bacteria or other cells that has been isolated.

n. Linguistics A language isolate.

v. To set apart or cut off from others.

v. To place in quarantine or isolation.

v. To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.

v. To insulate, or make free of external influence.

v. To separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture.

v. To insulate an electrical component from a source of electricity.

n. Something that has been isolated.

v. To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others.

v. To insulate. See Insulate.

v. To separate from all foreign substances; to make pure; to obtain in a free state.

v. To obtain a culture of a microorganism in pure form (from a complex mixture).

n. Something that has been isolated.

To set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone: often used reflexively: as, he isolated himself from all society.

In electricity, same as insulate, 3.

In chem., to obtain (a substance) free from all its combinations.

Isolated; detached.

n. In psychology, a feature or quality abstracted by attention from the complex of qualities constituting an object and considered by itself alone; the result of an analysis of a construct.

v. set apart from others

v. obtain in pure form

v. place or set apart

v. separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them

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insulator    isolator    insulation    insulate    insular   

insulate   

insulate    separate    segregate    quarantine   

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