plural of separate peace

(law, historical) A married woman's property over which her husband has no right of control.

(Ontario) A publicly-funded school that falls under the constitutional definition, historically implemented only for Roman Catholics, but has been provided for Protestants since the secularization of the public school system during the 1980s.

(of a junction) Having routes that meet cross each other on different levels, avoiding the conflicts that occur with a flat junction at only one level.

(idiomatic) (of two or more people) to cease travelling or spending time together; to depart with different destinations.

a piece of laboratory glassware in which the components of a mixture are partitioned between two immiscible liquids

(linguistics) An affix that can be detached from the word it attaches to in several instances.

(linguistics) A verb that is composed of a stem and a separable affix, which can be detached from the stem in several verb forms.

(physics) The conversion of a single-phase system into a multiphase system; especially the separation of a solution into two immiscible liquids.

(chemistry, physics) any of several processes for separating the components of mixtures by using thin barriers between two miscible fluids; any transmembrane force leads to preferential transport of one or more feed components