Separation

Separation may refer to:

• Separation (United States military), the process by which a service member leaves active duty
• Separation (air traffic control), rules to minimise the risk of collision between aircraft in flight
• Separation mastering, in music recording

Literature, film, music

• Separation (1967 film), a British feature film written by and starring Jane Arden and directed by Jack Bond
• Separations, album by British alternative rock band Pulp
• sEParation, EP by Destroy Babylon
• A Separation, 2011 Iranian film
• La Séparation, 1994 French film
• The Separation (2002 novel), novel by Christopher Priest
• The Separation (Animorphs), novel in the Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate

Science

• Flow separation, separation of a fluid boundary layer from the surface of a solid body moving relative to the fluid
• Separation of concerns, in computer science (and problem-solving in general)
• Separation process, in chemistry
• Separation principle, in control theory
• Separation axiom, concepts in the area of mathematics called topology
• Separated sets, related concept in topology, two sets disjoint from the other's closure
• Separation (behavior), the behavior of flocking animals to stand off from their neighbours
• Separation (statistics), a problem encountered in fitting models for categorical outcomes

Law and society

• Legal separation, a legal status where married couples may disentangle their finances without divorce
• Racial separation, the separation of different racial groups in daily life
• Doctrine of separation, belief among some Protestant religious groups that the members of a church should be separate from "the world"

Politics

• Separation of church and state, the idea that religion and government functions should be separate
• Political separation (separatism), those seeking to "separate" their group or territory from a larger entity

See also

• All pages beginning with "separat"
• All pages with titles containing "separat"
• Divide (disambiguation)
• Part (disambiguation)
• Segregate (disambiguation)