isolation

See also: Isolation

English

Etymology

[1800] From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French isolation, from French isolé isolated, placed on an island (thus away from other people)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

isolation (countable and uncountable, plural isolations)

1. (chiefly uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated.
2. The state of being away from other people.
3. The act of isolating.
4. (diplomacy, of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
   • 1975, W. Raymond Duncan, “Problems of Cuban Foreign Policy”, chapter 20 of Irving Louis Horowitz (editor), Cuban Communism, Fifth Edition, Transaction (publisher, 1985), page 486:

     As of 1975, diplomatic ostracism is still imposed by the Organization of American States (OAS). The inter-American community also exercises a trade embargo against Cuba. But even within this context of hemispheric isolation, Havana’s diplomacy is strikingly contradictory.

   • 1993 September, Jon Brook Wolfsthal, “The Israeli initiative”, in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Volume 49, Number 7, page 8:

     Israel could offer to ease North Korea’s isolation with diplomatic recognition, […] ¶ […] But Washington’s strategy of increasing North Korean isolation left no room for back-channel talks with Tel Aviv, […]

   • 2009, Dore Gold, The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West, Regnery Publishing, →ISBN, page 49:

     It [Europe] now pressed Washington to begin direct talks with Tehran, but Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, Rice’s point man on Iran, still stressed that diplomatic isolation of Iran—and not diplomatic engagement—was the only acceptable approach for dealing with the Iranian nuclear challenge.

6. (chemistry) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
7. (medicine) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others
8. (databases) a database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.

Related terms

• insulate
• insulation
• isolate
• isolatedness

Derived terms

• base isolation
• deisolation
• immunoisolation
• isolational
• isolationary
• isolationism
• isolationist
• isolationistic
• isolation pay
• isolation play
• isolation tank
• matrix isolation
• microisolation
• optoisolation
• postisolation
• preisolation
• reisolation
• sound isolation

 

Translations

state of being isolated

• Arabic: تَوَحُّد‎‎ m (tawaḥḥud)
• Armenian: մեկուսացում (hy) (mekusacʻum)
• Belarusian: ізаля́цыя f (izaljácyja)
• Bulgarian: изола́ция (bg) f (izolácija)
• Catalan: aïllament m, isolament m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 隔離／隔离 (zh) (gélí), 隔离 (zh) (gélí), 隔斷／隔断 (zh), 隔断 (zh) (géduàn)

• Esperanto: izoliteco
• Finnish: eristys (fi), eristyneisyys
• French: isolement (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Isolierung (de) f
• Greek: απομόνωση (el) f (apomónosi)
• Ido: eskarteso (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Interlingue:
• Irish: leithlis f
• Italian: isolamento (it) m
• Japanese: 隔離 (ja) (かくり, kakuri)
• Khmer: ភាពឯកោ (pʰiep aekao)
• Maori: mohoaotanga, taratahitanga
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: izolacja (pl) f, odosobnienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: isolamento m, isolação f
• Russian: изоля́ция (ru) f (izoljácija), обособле́ние (ru) n (obosoblénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: осама f (osama)
• Spanish: aislamiento (es) m
• Swedish: isolering (sv) c
• Turkmen: izolýasiýa
• Ukrainian: ізоля́ція f (izoljácija)

act of isolating

• Armenian: մեկուս (mekus)
• Bulgarian: изолиране (bg) n (izolirane)
• Catalan: isolació f
• Finnish: eristäminen (fi)
• French: isolation (fr) f
• Greek: απομόνωση (el) f (apomónosi)
• Irish: leithlisiú m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Malay: pengasingan, isolasi
• Portuguese: isolação f, isolamento m
• Russian: изоля́ция (ru) f (izoljácija)
• Spanish: aislamiento (es) m
• Swedish: isolering (sv) c

diplomacy: state of not having diplomatic relations

• Armenian: մեկ (hy) (mek)
• Finnish: eristyneisyys
• French: isolement (fr) m
• Italian: isolamento (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Khmer: ឯកោអនាថា (aekao a’naatʰaa)
• Portuguese: isolamento m
• Russian: изоля́ция (ru) f (izoljácija)

chemistry: separation of a component from a mixture

• Bulgarian: отделяне (bg) n (otdeljane), изолиране (bg) n (izolirane)
• Finnish: eristäminen (fi)
• Greek: απονόνωση f (aponónosi)
• Malay: pengasingan
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: isolamento m
• Russian: изоля́ция (ru) f (izoljácija)

medicine: separation of a patient from others

• Bulgarian: карантина f (karantina)
• Finnish: eristys (fi), eristäminen (fi)
• French: isolement (fr) m
• Greek: απομόνωση (el) f (apomónosi), καραντίνα (el) f (karantína)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: isolamento m
• Swedish: isolering (sv) c

computing: visibility of concurrent transactions

• Portuguese: isolamento m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} izolado, ^{(please verify)} izoliteco, ^{(please verify)} izoleco
• German: ^{(please verify)} Isolation (de) f (1,2)
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} בידוד m (bidod)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} izolare (ro) f
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} izolacija (sh) f, ^{(please verify)} osama (sh) f, ^{(please verify)} osamljenost (sh) f

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Pronunciation

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Noun

isolation f (plural isolations)

1. isolation
2. insulation

Related terms

• isoler
• isolement

Further reading

• “isolation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.