SEPARATION

n. 1 rift, break, split, split-up, divorce, break-up, disunion, estrangement Their separation, after forty years, was a surprise 2 partition, division, split, schism, dividing line, dissociation, disassociation, severance The United States constitution provides for the separation of church and state 3 disintegration, shattering, break-up, fragmentation, dismemberment, taking or keeping apart, segregation, division, disjoining, disjunction, fission, scission, rupture, schism, splitting, split, fracturing, fracture, break After a crash, investigators supervise the separation of the aeroplane into its tens of thousands of component parts