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segregation: see apartheid apartheid (əpärt`hīt) [Afrik. ..... Click the link for more information. ; integration integration, in U.S. history, the goal of an organized movement to break down the barriers of discrimination and segregation separating African Americans from the rest of American society. ..... Click the link for more information. . segregation 1. Genetics the separation at meiosis of the two members of any pair of alleles into separate gametes 2. Metallurgy the process in which a component of an alloy or solid solution separates in small regions within the solid or on the solid's surface |
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He inspected the copra-drying that had been going on, and went through the barracks to see if there were any sick lying hidden and defying his rule of segregation. As the dancers poured out of the hall Frome, drawing back behind the projecting storm-door, watched the segregation of the grotesquely muffled groups, in which a moving lantern ray now and then lit up a face flushed with food and dancing. This pamphlet had a small circulation among workingmen; but already had the segregation of classes proceeded so far, that the members of the middle class never heard of the pamphlet at all, and so remained in ignorance of the law. |
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