<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.</li><li>a place, line, or point of parting.</li><li>a gap, hole, rent, or the like.</li><li>something that separates or divides.</li><li>Law: cessation of conjugal cohabitation, as by mutual consent; judicial separation.</li><li>Aerospace: the time or act of releasing a burned-out stage of a rocket or missile from the remainder.</li><li>Photography: separation negative.</li></ul>