[syn: apart(p), isolated, obscure]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Isolated \I"so*la`ted\ ([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]`t[e^]d), a.
Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others.
[1913 Webster]
Isolated point of a curve. (Geom.) See Acnode.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Isolate \I"so*late\ ([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]t or [imac]s"[-o]*l[=a]t;
277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Isolated
([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Isolating
([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [It. isolato, p. p. of isolare
to isolate, fr. isola island, L. insula. See 2d Isle, and
cf. Insulate.]
[1913 Webster]
1. To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or
alone; to insulate; to separate from others; as, to
isolate an infected person from others; to isolate the
troublemakers in a classroom.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which
ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts.
--Bp.
Warburton.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Elec.) To insulate. See Insulate.
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3. (Chem.) To separate (a substance) from all foreign
substances; to make pure; to obtain in a free state; as,
to isolate the desired product from a reaction mixture.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
4. (Microbiol.) To obtain a culture of a microorganism in
pure form (from a complex mixture); as, to isolate
Eschericia coli from a patient's blood.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
isolated
adj 1: not close together in time; "isolated instances of
rebellion"; "a few stray crumbs" [syn: isolated,
stray]
2: being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt
detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated
figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself
as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart
feeling" [syn: detached, isolated, separated, set-
apart]
3: marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements;
"little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected
as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"- Scientific Monthly
[syn: disjunct, isolated]
4: cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded
fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"
[syn: isolated, marooned, stranded]
5: under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a
quarantined animal"; "isolated patients" [syn: isolated,
quarantined]
6: remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over the
centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they
inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated villages
remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure village"
[syn: apart(p), isolated, obscure]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
164 Moby Thesaurus words for "isolated":
abandoned, alien, alienated, alone, aloof, anchoretical, anomalous,
anonymous, apart, archipelagian, archipelagic, at rest, calm,
cloistered, closet, companionless, cool, cordoned, cordoned off,
cut off, deserted, detached, disarticulated, disconnected,
discrete, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct,
dislocated, dispersed, disrelated, dissociated, disunited, divided,
divorced, dwindling, ebbing, estranged, even-tenored, exceptional,
excluded, exotic, extraneous, foreign, forlorn, forsaken,
friendless, halcyon, hermitical, hidden, homeless, hushed,
impassive, in a backwater, incognito, incommensurable,
incomparable, independent, individual, inmost, innermost, insular,
insulated, interior, intimate, inward, irrelative, island,
island-dotted, islanded, islandish, islandlike, islandy, isleted,
isolate, kithless, lone, lonely, lonesome, moldering, monastic,
other, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outlandish, pacific,
particular, peaceable, peaceful, personal, placid, private, privy,
quarantined, quiescent, quiet, remote, removed, reposeful,
reposing, restful, resting, retired, rootless, roped off,
scattered, seagirt, sealed off, secluded, secret, segregate,
segregated, separate, separated, sequestered, sequestrated,
set apart, sheltered, shut off, single, single-handed, singular,
smooth, solitary, solo, special, still, still as death, stillish,
stilly, stoic, stolid, stranded, strange, subsiding, tranquil,
unabetted, unaccompanied, unaffiliated, unagitated, unaided,
unallied, unassisted, unassociated, unattended, unconnected,
undisturbed, unescorted, unfrequented, unique, unmoved,
unperturbed, unrelatable, unrelated, unruffled, unseconded,
unstirring, unsupported, untroubled, unvisited, waning,
withdrawn
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
compact
finite
isolated
1. (Or "finite", "isolated") In domain theory, an
element d of a cpo D is compact if and only if, for any
chain S, a subset of D,
d <= lub S => there exists s in S such that d <= s.
I.e. you always reach d (or better) after a finite number of
steps up the chain.
("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq).
[Jargon File]
(1995-01-13)
2. Of a design, describes the valuable property that
it can all be apprehended at once in one's head. This
generally means the thing created from the design can be used
with greater facility and fewer errors than an equivalent tool
that is not compact. Compactness does not imply triviality or
lack of power; for example, C is compact and Fortran is
not, but C is more powerful than Fortran. Designs become
non-compact through accreting features and cruft that
don't merge cleanly into the overall design scheme (thus, some
fans of Classic C maintain that ANSI C is no longer
compact).
(2008-10-13)