(law) A legal arrangement in which a married couple live in separate homes while remaining legally married.

(algebra) A finite (and thereby algebraic) extension of a base field such that every element of the extension is the root of a separable polynomial over the base field.

A sum of money paid regularly to support the dependents of a member of the military while he or she is serving away from home. / Money paid as compensation to someone whose employment has ended.

Money paid as compensation to someone whose employment has ended.

(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.

plural of legal separation

(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

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

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