Isolation
Isolation is the process or fact of isolating or being isolated and may refer to:
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Sociology, psychology and other related human-related issues
- Isolation (health care), various measures taken to prevent contagious diseases from being spread
- Isolation ward, a separate ward used to isolate patients suffering from infectious diseases
- Isolation (psychology), a defense mechanism in psychoanalytic theory first proposed by Sigmund Freud
- Isolation to facilitate abuse
- Emotional isolation
- Social isolation
- Solitary confinement, a special form of imprisonment in which a prisoner is isolated from most or all human contact
- Solitude, a state of seclusion or isolation, i.e., lack of contact with people
- Isolation effect or Von Restorff effect, a psychological effect of distinctive items more easily 'remembered'
Mathematics
Natural sciences
- Electrical or galvanic isolation, isolating functional sections of electrical systems to prevent current flowing between them
- Isolated system in thermodynamics, a physical system without any external exchange
- Isolating language, a type of language with a low morpheme-per-word ratio
- Isolation (database systems), how and when the changes made by one operation become visible to other concurrent operations
- Isolation (microbiology) techniques to separate microbes from a sample containing mixtures of microbes
- Reproductive isolation in population genetics, prevents members of two different species from producing offspring if they cross or mate
- Topographic isolation of a summit, the great circle distance to the nearest point of equal elevation
- Vibration isolation, in engineering, the process of isolating an object from the source of vibrations
- Application isolation in computing environments, for example in the Application Isolation API in the Java Virtual Machine or in Security and safety features new to Windows Vista#Application isolation in Windows Vista
- In electronics, a measure of how well two ports are disconnected in devices such as directional couplers and circulators
Entertainment
In film
- Isolation (2005 film), an Irish horror film
- Isolation (2009 film), a British documentary film
- Isolation (2015 film), a drama film
In television
- "Isolation" (The Walking Dead), an episode of the television series The Walking Dead
In music
- "Isolation", a song by Die Krupps from 1995 album III - Odyssey of the Mind
- "Isolation" (Alter Bridge song), 2010
- Isolation (Carpathian album), 2008
- Isolation (Fear My Thoughts album), 2008
- "Isolation" (John Lennon song), 1970
- "Isolation" (Joy Division song), 1980
- Isolation (Kali Uchis album), 2018
- "Isolation" (Kreator song), 1995
- Isolation (Toto album), 1984
Other
- Isolation (illusion), an illusion whereby a prop appears to float in space
- Isolation (poker), a play specifically for the purpose of making the hand a one-on-one contest with a specific opponent
gollark: I... am probably failing at this, since if you go through enough of my somewhat-linked accounts you can probably put together enough data to uniquely identify me, but OH WELL.
gollark: Just don't be too specific about your identity on the internet.
gollark: I think only two people actually have it, and neither have been permitted back here yet...
gollark: Is this a [REDACTED] sort of thing or are you just being triangular?
gollark: Light is quite fast. I think the Doppler effect will mostly be negligible.
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Isolation
- All pages with titles containing Isolation
- Biocontainment
- Quarantine
- Insulation (disambiguation)
- Isolate (disambiguation)
- Isolator (disambiguation)
- Social isolation
- Isolationism
- Uncontacted peoples, indigenous peoples living in isolation from the external world
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