segregation

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Definition

The practice of separating people or things, which can range from voluntary self-sorting to legally enforced discrimination that stains history books. In genetics, it's the boring-but-important Mendelian process where parent organisms pass only one allele to offspring. Real estate agents know it as that uncomfortable topic from the industry's shameful past that fair housing laws were created to combat.

Example Usage

The city's housing segregation patterns from the 1950s continue to influence neighborhood demographics today.

Source: Legal and scientific terminology

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