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separative

[ sep-er-uh-tiv, -uh-rey- ]

adjective

  1. tending to separate.
  2. causing separation.


separative

/ ˈsɛprə-; ˈsɛpərətɪv /

adjective

  1. tending to separate or causing separation
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ貹پԱ, noun
  • ˈ貹پ, adverb
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Other yvlog Forms

  • a·t· adverb
  • a·t·Ա noun
  • ԴDz·a·t adjective
  • ܲ·a··پ adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of separative1

1585–95; < Late Latin ŧ貹īܲ, equivalent to Latin ŧ貹 ( us ) separate + -īܲ -ive
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Example Sentences

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The U.S deployed all of this nuclear weapons know-how—especially the national labs and their mastery of "separative work units" needed to enrich fissile material—to craft a nuclear deal with Iran.

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One of the most notable of these holds that an agreement must enable Iran to ultimately expand its enrichment capacity to 190,000 separative work units.

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He said that the West wanted to limit Iran’s enrichment capacity to “10,000 separative work units, which is equivalent to 10,000 centrifuges of the older type that we already have.”

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As a matter of course, this separative system precludes all unification of artistic principles and is, therefore, very harmful to the present generation of students.

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All these separative factors were absent in Nova Scotia.

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