Isolation

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The term Isolation may refer to: isolation: the act of being alone; serperation.

• Solitude, the psychological phenomenon
• 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 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.

In politics

• Splendid isolation, British foreign policy of the late 19th century
• Encirclement, of an opposing force in warfare
• Isolationism, political phenomenon where a country removes itself from international affairs

In 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 (1996), album by Die Krupps
• Isolation (2008) by Carpathian

In 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)

[edit] See also

• Insulation

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