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blunt-end (medicine) and separation (iou)


blunt-end (medicine)


blunt-end
Refers to double-stranded DNA in which there are no unpaired bases at the end.


separation (iou)



separation noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French separation from Latin separatio(n-), formed as SEPARATE verb + -ATION.]
I.
The action or an act of separating something; the state of being separated. LME.
make separation make a severance or division. separation of powers Politics the vesting of the legislative, executive, and judiciary powers of government in separate bodies.
H. James As if they had been old friends meeting after a separation. Times The separation of the lunar module..from the command service module.
The action or an act of withdrawing oneself or leaving the company of others; secession. LME.
J. A. Froude The first..movement towards a separation from Rome.
Alchemy. A process of analysis, extraction, etc. L15-E18.
Astrology. The apparent moving apart in the sky of two planets etc. Now rare or obsolete. L16.
Law. An arrangement whereby a couple remain married but cease to live together, either by mutual consent or following a judicial decree granted at the suit of one of them. Also more fully judicial separation, legal separation. E17.
Medicine. The detachment of tissue, esp. dead tissue, from the body. Now rare or obsolete. E17.
Discharge from the armed forces, the police, etc.; resignation or dismissal from Employment. US. L18.
II. A separated thing.
A Christian denomination or sect of dissenters from a Church, esp. the Church of England; the body of Protestant nonconformists collectively. L16-E18.
A separated portion, a part, a division. rare. L16.
III. A thing that separates.
The place or point where two or more objects separate or are divided from one another; a divergence, a line of division. E17.
W. Chambers We come now to the separation of the Maas and Waal branches of the river.
A thing that constitutes a division or partition; an intervening space or break; a cause of separating. rare. E18.
IV. techn.
Photography & Printing. Each of a set of three or more monochrome reproductions of a coloured picture, each in a different colour, which reproduce the full colour of the original when combined; the process of obtaining such a set. E20.
Physics & Aeronautics. The generation of a turbulent boundary layer between the surface of a body and a moving fluid, or between two fluids moving at different speeds. E20.
Distinction or difference between the signals carried by the two channels of a stereophonic system; a measure of this. M20.
Comb.: separation anxiety Psychology anxiety provoked in a child by (the threat of) separation from its mother or familiar surroundings; separation-order Law an order of court for the judicial separation of a married couple.
separationism noun advocacy of separation, or of a theory of separation L19.
separationist noun & adjective (a) noun an advocate of political separation; (b) adjective of or pertaining to political separation: M19.