separation : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a crossing that uses an underpass or overpass
  

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• noun a judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart
  judicial separation.
  

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• (Law), a form of divorce; a separation of man and wife which has the effect of making each a single person for all legal purposes but without ability to contract a new marriage. Mozley & W.

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• noun a judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart
  judicial separation.
  
• noun (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)
  separation.
  

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• noun the energy required to separate particles from a molecule or atom or nucleus; equals the mass defect
  binding energy.
  

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