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The space you insert between two things so neither one has to change.
means The state or act of becoming, or being made, apart from something that was once joined to it.
from From Latin separare — se- ('apart, aside') plus parare ('to prepare, arrange'). That se- prefix is the same 'apart' particle lurking in secret and select; parare is a cousin of words like prepare and repair. So at its root, separation isn't violence — it's a kind of arranging-apart, a tidy administrative act of putting things in their own places. The word has always been more bureaucrat than battlefield.
- physics term
- minimum distance before two objects stop touching
- legal limbo
- married couples can separate for years, undivorced
- chemistry use
- separation isolates mixtures without changing their composition
- anxiety disorder
- separation anxiety was only formally named in 1905