isolation

Etymology
. From, from , placed on an island (thus away from other people). Equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1)  The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
 * 2) The act of isolating.
 * 3)  The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
 * 4)  The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
 * 5)  The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: )
 * 6)  A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
 * 7)  A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.
 * 1)  The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
 * 2)  The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: )
 * 3)  A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
 * 4)  A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.
 * 1)  A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: تَوَحُّد
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: ізаля́цыя
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: aïllament, isolament
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: izoliteco
 * Estonian: isolatsioon
 * Faroese: avbyrging
 * Finnish:, eristyneisyys
 * French:
 * Georgian: იზოლაცია
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Icelandic: einangrun
 * Ido:
 * Irish: leithlis, iargúltacht
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Khmer: ភាពឯកោ
 * Korean:, ,
 * Latvian: atšķirtība, izolācija
 * Lithuanian: atskyrimas, izoliacija
 * Luxembourgish: Isolatioun
 * Macedonian: изолација
 * Maori: mohoaotanga, taratahitanga
 * Mirandese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: isolering, isolasjon
 * Nynorsk: isolering, isolasjon
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: isolamento,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: изола́ција, о̏сама
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: izolácia
 * Slovene: izolacija
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: izole olmak
 * Turkmen: izolýasiýa
 * Ukrainian: ізоля́ція


 * Armenian: մեկուս
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: isolació
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Irish: leithlisiú
 * Malay: pengasingan,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, isolamento
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Armenian:
 * Finnish: eristyneisyys
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Khmer: ឯកោអនាថា
 * Portuguese: isolamento
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: απονόνωση
 * Malay: pengasingan
 * Portuguese: isolamento
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian: каранти́на
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Maori: noho taratahi
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: isolamento
 * Swedish:


 * Portuguese: isolamento


 * Esperanto:, ,
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Romanian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:, ,

Etymology
From. Attested since 1774.

Noun

 * 1) ; insulation
 * 2)   low number of morphemes per word on average
 * 3)   a Freudian defense mechanism
 * 1)   low number of morphemes per word on average
 * 2)   a Freudian defense mechanism

Usage notes

 * nowadays has a connotation of physical isolation or insulation as a form of protection, chiefly of objects.
 * nowadays has a connotation of isolation in the sense of exclusion.
 * In older texts, the two may be used more interchangeably.