different between assignment vs segregation

English

Etymology

From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement.

Pronunciation

Noun

assignment (countable and uncountable, plural assignments)

1. The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.

   This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.

2. The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.

   We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.

3. An assigned task.

   The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.

4. A position to which someone is assigned.

   Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.

5. (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.

   Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.

6. (law) A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.

   The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.

7. (law) A document that effects this transfer.

   Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.

8. (programming) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.

Hyponyms

• (programming): augmented assignment

Translations

References

• assignment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

1555. From Latin segregatio.Morphologically segregate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??????e????n/

Noun

segregation (countable and uncountable, plural segregations)

1. The setting apart or separation of things or people, as a natural process, a manner of organizing people that may be voluntary or enforced by law.
2. (biology) The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
3. (mineralogy) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
4. (politics, public policy) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
5. (sociology) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
6. (genetics) The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis

Synonyms

• apartheid

Antonyms

• desegregation

Derived terms

• segregationist
• segregation distorter

Related terms

• segregate
• segregative
• segregator

Translations

References

Anagrams

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Noun

segregation

1. (sociology) segregation (of cultures)

Coordinate terms

• assimilation, pluralistisk integration