[mass noun]the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart 隔离;分隔 the segregation of pupils with learning difficulties. 对有学习困难的学生的分隔。 ■the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment 种族隔离 an official policy of racial segregation. 官方的种族隔离政策。 ■(Genetics)the separation of pairs of alleles at meiosis and their independent transmission via separate gametes (遗传)(等位基因的)分离