Separation

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Separation may refer to:

• Separation (United States military), the process by which a service member leaves active duty
• Separation (air traffic control), rules to minimise the risk of collision between aircraft in flight
• Separation mastering, in music recording

Literature, film, and music

Science

• Flow separation, separation of a fluid boundary layer from the surface of a solid body moving relative to the fluid
• Separation of concerns, in computer science (and problem-solving in general)
• Separation process, in chemistry
• Separation principle, in control theory
• Separation axiom, concepts in the area of mathematics called topology
• Separated sets, related concept in topology, two sets disjoint from the other's closure
• Separation of variables, in mathematics to solve certain (separable) differential equations
• Separation (behavior), the behavior of flocking animals to stand off from their neighbours
• Separation (statistics), a problem encountered in fitting models for categorical outcomes
• 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
• Intertemporal portfolio choice#Time-independent decisions, where in some contexts portfolio choices for many periods can be made separately

Law and society

• Separation from the world, belief among some Protestant religious groups that the members of a church should be separate from "the world"
• 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
• 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

Politics

• Separation of church and state, the idea that religion and government functions should be separate
• Political separation (separatism), advocacy of a state of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental or gender separation from the larger group

See also

• All pages beginning with separat
• All pages with a title containing separat
• Separate (disambiguation)
• Divide (disambiguation)
• Part (disambiguation)
• Segregate (disambiguation)
• Fragmentation (disambiguation)
• Split (disambiguation)