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Etymology

First as past participle "isolated", from Italian isolato, "secluded", from isola, "island", from Latin insula, "island".

Noun

1. The act of isolating.
2. The state of being isolated, detached, or separated.

Isolation is the process or fact of isolating or being isolated and may refer to:

Sociology, psychology and other related human-related issues

• Isolation (health care), various measures taken to prevent contagious diseases from being spread
  • Isolation ward, a separate ward used to isolate patients suffering from infectious diseases
• Isolation (psychology), a defense mechanism in psychoanalytic theory first proposed by Sigmund Freud
• Isolation to facilitate abuse
• Emotional isolation
• Social isolation
• Solitary confinement, a special form of imprisonment in which a prisoner is isolated from most or all human contact
• Solitude, a state of seclusion or isolation, i.e., lack of contact with people
• Isolation effect or Von Restorff effect, a psychological effect of distinctive items more easily 'remembered'

Mathematics

• Real-root isolation

Natural sciences

• Electrical or galvanic isolation, isolating functional sections of electrical systems to prevent current flowing between them
• Isolated system in thermodynamics, a physical system without any external exchange
• Isolating language, a type of language with a low morpheme-per-word ratio
• Isolation (database systems), how and when the changes made by one operation become visible to other concurrent operations
• Isolation (microbiology) techniques to separate microbes from a sample containing mixtures of microbes
• Reproductive isolation in population genetics, prevents members of two different species from producing offspring if they cross or mate
• Topographic isolation of a summit, the great circle distance to the nearest point of equal elevation
• Vibration isolation, in engineering, the process of isolating an object from the source of vibrations
• Application isolation in computing environments, for example in the Application Isolation API in the Java Virtual Machine or in Security and safety features new to Windows Vista#Application isolation in Windows Vista
• In electronics, a measure of how well two ports are disconnected in devices such as directional couplers and circulators

Entertainment

In film

• Isolation (2005 film), an Irish horror film
• Isolation (2009 film), a British documentary film
• Isolation (2015 film), a drama film

In television

• "Isolation" (The Walking Dead), an episode of the television series The Walking Dead

In music

• "Isolation", a song by Die Krupps from 1995 album III - Odyssey of the Mind
• "Isolation" (Alter Bridge song), 2010
• Isolation (Carpathian album), 2008
• Isolation (Fear My Thoughts album), 2008
• "Isolation" (John Lennon song), 1970
• "Isolation" (Joy Division song), 1980
• Isolation (Kali Uchis album), 2018
• "Isolation" (Kreator song), 1995
• Isolation (Toto album), 1984

Other

• Isolation (illusion), an illusion whereby a prop appears to float in space
• Isolation (poker), a play specifically for the purpose of making the hand a one-on-one contest with a specific opponent

See also

• Biocontainment
• Quarantine
• Insulation (disambiguation)
• Isolate (disambiguation)
• Isolator (disambiguation)
• Social isolation