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The term Isolation may refer to: isolation: the act of being alone; serperation.

Solitude, the psychological phenomenon
Solitary confinement
Isolation (health care), measures taken to prevent the spread of communicable disease in a patient. See also Quarantine.
isolation tank, sensory deprivation tank
Isolating language, description of a language type
Isolation effect, also known as the Von Restorff effect, psychological effect of distinctive items more easily 'remembered'
People or tribes living in isolation from the outside world.

In politics

splendid isolation, British foreign policy of the late 19th century
Encirclement, of an opposing force in warfare
Isolationism, political phenomenon where a country removes itself from international affairs

In games and entertainment

Isolation (poker), raise designed to encourage others to fold
Isolation (film), 2005 Irish horror movie written and directed by Billy O'Brian
"Isolation" (John Lennon song) (1970) by John Lennon
"Isolation" (Joy Division song) (1980) by Joy Division
Isolation (album) (1984), album by Toto
Isolation (1996), album by Die Krupps
Isolation (2008) by Carpathian

In other uses

Isolation (database systems), in computer science
Isolator switch for electrical isolation.
Optical isolator, permitting passage of light in only one direction
Isolation (illusion), an illusion where a ball or other object is made to appear stationary in space.
Topographic isolation in geodesy, surveying, and mountaineering
Speciation, separation of two populations of a species
Isolated point in topology (mathematics)

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