SEGREGATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does segregated mean? 

• SEGREGATED (adjective)
  The adjective SEGREGATED has 1 sense:

1. separated or isolated from others or a main group

  Familiarity information: SEGREGATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEGREGATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Separated or isolated from others or a main group

Synonyms:

segregated; unintegrated

Context example:

a segregated neighborhood

Similar:

isolated; quarantined (under forced isolation especially for health reasons)

separate (separated according to race, sex, class, or religion)

sequestered (kept separate and secluded)

lily-white; white (restricted to whites only)

Also:

separate (independent; not united or joint)

divided (separated into parts or pieces)

Antonym:

integrated (not segregated; designated as available to all races or groups)

 Context examples 

Yet neurons grown in two dimensions are unable to replicate the complex structural organization of brain tissue, which consists of segregated regions of grey and white matter.

(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)

This bipotential layer is subsequently segregated into endoderm and mesoderm.

(Endomesoderm, NCI Thesaurus)

Unlike humans, mice and other small mammals’ cone cells are segregated in the retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye.

(New color vision pathway unveiled, NIH)

An activity defined at a global library level that identifies pre-treatment factors by which study subjects are segregated to assure balance of these factors before randomization to a study arm or some smaller segment of a study.

(Defined Stratification Criterion, NCI Thesaurus)