<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act or practice of segregating;</li><li>a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.</li><li>the institutional separation of an ethnic, racial, religious, or other minority group from the dominant majority.</li><li>the state or condition of being segregated, set apart, separated, or restricted to one group: Segregation on buses meant that the seats at the front were reserved for white passengers.</li><li>the segregation of private clubs.</li><li>something segregated, or set apart.</li><li>Genetics: the separation of allelic genes into different gametes during meiosis.</li></ul>