■ verb
1》 place apart or alone; cut off.
↘place in quarantine.
2》 Chemistry & Biology obtain or extract (a compound, microorganism, etc.) in a pure form.
3》 cut off the electrical or other connection to (a part of a network).
■ noun a person or thing that has become ~d.
Derivatives
isolable adjective
isolatable adjective
isolator noun
Origin
C19: back-form. from ~d .