Isolation
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The term Isolation may refer to: isolation: the act of being alone; separation.
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- Solitude, a social state
- Solitary confinement
- Isolation (health care), measures taken to prevent the spread of communicable disease in a patient. See also Quarantine.
- Isolation tank, sensory deprivation tank
- Isolating language, description of a natural language type
- Isolation effect, also known as the Von Restorff effect, psychological effect of distinctive items more easily 'remembered'
- People or tribes living in isolation from the outside world.
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[edit] Games and entertainment
- Isolation (poker), raise designed to encourage others to fold
- Isolation (film), 2005 Irish horror movie written and directed by Billy O'Brian
- "Isolation" (John Lennon song) (1970) by John Lennon
- "Isolation" (Joy Division song) (1980) by Joy Division
- Isolation (album) (1984), album by Toto
- Isolation (Fear My Thoughts album), an album by Fear My Thoughts
- Isolation (Carpathian album) (2008)
[edit] Other uses
- Isolation (database systems), in computer science
- Isolator switch for electrical isolation
- Optical isolator, permitting passage of light in only one direction
- Isolation (illusion), an illusion where a ball or other object is made to appear stationary in space
- Topographic isolation in geodesy, surveying, and mountaineering
- Speciation, separation of two populations of a species
- Isolated point in topology (mathematics)
- Mount Isolation in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, United States
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