Noun

(en noun)

The setting apart or separation of things or people, as a natural process, a manner of organizing people that may be voluntary or enforced by law.

(rfc-sense) (biology) The Mendelian Law of Segregation related to genetic transmission or geographical segregation of various species.

(mineralogy) Separation]] from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the [[crystallize, crystallizing process.

(politics, public policy) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).

(sociology) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).

Noun

(-)

A belief in (usually racial) segregation.

*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 30, author=David D. Kirkpatrick, title=Shake, Rattle and Roil the Grand Ol' Coalition, work=New York Times citation

, passage=Mr. Rollins, for his part, traced Mr. Huckabee's political lineage back to George Wallace in 1968 (without the segregationism ). Mr. Wallace and, later, Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot appealed to the same blocs of working-class voters and socially conservative white Southerners that the Republican Party began trying to court in Senator Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign. }}