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To be alone, minus the romance novels make it sound like.
means To set apart from others, cutting off contact or connection — whether it's a person, a problem, or a single variable in an experiment.
from From Latin 'insula' meaning island — the same root that gives us 'insular' and 'peninsula.' The word traveled through Italian 'isolato' (literally 'made into an island') before settling into English around the 18th century. So to isolate something is, quite literally, to maroon it — to strand it on its own little island, whether that's a sick patient, a chemical compound, or a lonely heart.
- etymology
- from Latin insula, meaning island
- biology use
- a single strain grown pure, no contamination
- psychology risk
- loneliness rewires the brain like physical pain
- protein world
- whey isolate just means fewer carbs, more marketing