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[ adjective ] not close together in time

Synonyms

stray scattered

Examples

"isolated instances of rebellion" "scattered fire" "a stray bullet grazed his thigh"

Used in print

(Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)

An isolated case of quackery ?

By_no_means are these isolated cases .

(R. P. Jerrard, "Inscribed squares in plane curves"...)

This set must consist_of isolated points and closed_intervals .

This prevents the occurrence of an infinite sequence of isolated tangent points .

In some neighborhood of an isolated tangent point in the f-plane , say **f , the function **f is either double valued or has no values defined , except at the tangent point itself , where it is single valued .

Related terms

sporadic

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[ adjective ] being or feeling set or kept apart from others

Examples

"she felt detached from the group" "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others" "had a set-apart feeling"

Used in print

(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)

Nor have we remembered that in the melting_pot of America the hundreds of isolated and semi isolated ethnic , regional and occupational groups did not fuse into a homogeneous national unit until long after education and industrialization had caused them to cast oral tradition aside as a means of carrying culturally significant material .

Nor have we remembered that in the melting_pot of America the hundreds of isolated and semi isolated ethnic , regional and occupational groups did not fuse into a homogeneous national unit until long after education and industrialization had caused them to cast oral tradition aside as a means of carrying culturally significant material .

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separate

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[ adjective ] being or feeling set or kept apart from others

Examples

"she felt detached from the group" "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others" "had a set-apart feeling"

Related terms

separate

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[ adjective ] marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements

Synonyms

disjunct

Examples

"little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"- Scientific Monthly

Used in print

(Richard F. McLaughlin, et al., "A study of the...)

Such a dual derivation was strikingly demonstrated during the injection process where initial filling would be noted to occur in several isolated pleural vessels at_once .

(A. N. Nagaraj and L. M. Black, "Localization of...)

Frequently a_few isolated thick walled cells or , rarely , groups of such cells in the xylem region , were also specifically stained , but there was no such staining in epidermis , cortex , most xylem cells , ray cells , or pith .

(Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)

As an isolated policy , land_reform is likely to be politically disruptive ; as part of a larger development effort , however , it may gain wide acceptance .

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separate

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[ adjective ] cut off or left behind

Synonyms

stranded marooned

Examples

"an isolated pawn" "several stranded fish in a tide pool" "travelers marooned by the blizzard"

Related terms

unaccompanied

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[ adjective ] under forced isolation especially for health reasons

Synonyms

quarantined

Examples

"a quarantined animal" "isolated patients"

Related terms

segregated

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[ adjective ] remote and separate physically or socially

Synonyms

apart obscure

Examples

"existed over the centuries as a world apart" "preserved because they inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson "tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization" "an obscure village"

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unconnected

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