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isolate
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isolate [′ī·sə‚lāt]
(chemical engineering)
To separate two portions of a process system by means of valving or line blanks; used as safety measure during maintenance or repair, or to redirect process flows.
(electricity)
To disconnect a circuit or piece of equipment from an electric supply system.
(genetics)
A population so cut off from others that mating occurs only within the group.
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James Davies, in Revolutionary Change by Chalmers Johnson (1966), states that "Revolution is not a discrete, relatively isolable, purely political phenomenon; the factors that contribute to it are as manifold as the elements comprising society itself, and abstract generalisations about revolution must reflect this extreme complexity.
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The text is merely a name for the strictly temporary operation of a temporarily isolable class of semiotic differences by which the ultimately inarticulable play of signification differentiates itself from itself in the form of a relatively constant object that postpones an imminent collapse into universal indifference.
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The empiricist account with its emphasis on isolable impressions is the model which Newman uses in his analysis of religious experience.
Religious belief in Newman's Grammar of Assent by Caiazza, John / Modern Age
 
 
 
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