Separation

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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, a 1992 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), a 1999 novel in the Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate
Separation (band), a Swedish straight edge hardcore punk band
Separation (EP), a 2006 EP by Halou

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

Doctrine of separation, belief among some Protestant religious groups that the members of a church should be separate from "the world"
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
Six degrees of separation, the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person on... could be less 4.74 degrees only?

Separation of church and state, the idea that religion and government functions should be separate
Political separation (separatism), advocacy of a state of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental or gender separation from the larger group