(n): the way something is with respect to its main attributes
(n): coming apart
(n): an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
(n): the distance between things
(n): the property created by the space between two objects or points
(n): sorting one thing from others
(n): grouping by class or kind or size
(n): the social act of separating or parting company
(n): action taken by a group of people
(n): the space where a division or parting occurs
(n): an area reserved for some particular purpose
(n): the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)
(n): something that results
(n): (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)
(n): a stopping
(n): the act of dividing or disconnecting
(n): the act of changing the unity or wholeness of something
"War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery and sexual pleasure. Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation."