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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Tending to separate or to cause separation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Separating; tending to separate; promoting separation.
  • In natural history, distinctive; serving for distinction of species or groups: as, separative characters.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Causing, or being to cause, separation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Serving to separate

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it
  • adjective serving to separate or divide into parts
  • adjective (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group

Etymologies

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Latin separativus.

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Examples

  • You have not understood the meaning of the word 'separative'.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • It is not so far off as you may think, because there will be on Earth more enlightened Souls and less of those separative egos who cannot love their brothers as theirselves, and these egos who will represent the phase-out party, will find themselves on the wrong side of destiny and evolution.

    Matthew Yglesias » Economists for an Employee Free Choice Act 2009

  • This unique focus on the book and God makes a religion conclusive, exclusionary and separative.

    Pankaj Jain, Ph.D.: Jain Dharma Goes Beyond Religion Ph.D. Pankaj Jain 2011

  • As humanity becomes more holistic, more integrated into their Souls or higher being, attributes of light (wisdom) and love (fairness, sharing), the Party which represents these attributes, will dominate and lead to the dismay of the other party who stays separative, materialistic, critical, individualistic instead of group conscious.

    Matthew Yglesias » Economists for an Employee Free Choice Act 2009

  • Preliminary methods: Elimination of obstacles: egocentricity; separative self-assertion; hostility and combat­iveness; prejudices and preconceptions.

    C. G. Jung and Psychosynthesis, by Roberto Assagioli William Harryman 2009

  • Let our mind be free from all conventional separative thoughts including religion and nationality Posted by Debabrata Ghosh on October 9, 2008 at 11:28am

    Archive 2009-07-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • The capacity of enrichment plants is measured in terms of 'separative work units' or SWU.

    Uranium enrichment 2009

  • Let our mind be free from all conventional separative thoughts including religion and nationality Posted by Debabrata Ghosh on October 9, 2008 at 11:28am For a long time I have severed all connections from my official religion-Hinduism.

    I have severed all connections from my official religion-Hinduism Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • The unit is strictly: Kilogram Separative Work Unit, and it measures the quantity of separative work performed to enrich a given amount of uranium a certain amount.

    Uranium enrichment 2009

  • Preparations for licensing a commercial plant at Wilmington, North Carolina, envisage a start-up date of 2012, with annual capacity of 3.5 to 6 million separative work units (SWU).

    Uranium enrichment 2009

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