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[ adjective ] not close together in time
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 |
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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 . Related terms |
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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 |
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[ adjective ] marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements
Synonyms 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 . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] cut off or left behind
Examples "an isolated pawn" "several stranded fish in a tide pool" "travelers marooned by the blizzard" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] under forced isolation especially for health reasons
Synonyms Examples "a quarantined animal" "isolated patients" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] remote and separate physically or socially
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" Related terms |
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