From HomoExcelsior

1. The act or process of segregating or the condition of being segregated. 2. The policy and practice of imposing the social separation of races, as in schools, housing, and industry, especially so as to practice discrimination against people of color in a predominantly white society. 3. The separation of paired alleles especially during meiosis, so that the members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes.

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