isolated
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A rendering into English of French isolé.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]isolated (comparative more isolated, superlative most isolated)
- Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.
- Happening or occurring only once.
- (chess, of a pawn) Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file.
- (meteorology, of precipitation) Affecting ten to twenty percent of a forecast zone.
- (medicine) Which has been extracted from the organism.
- (algebra, of an associated prime of a module) Minimal with respect to inclusion (among associated primes).
- Antonym: embedded
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]in isolation
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Verb
[edit]isolated
- simple past and past participle of isolate
References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “isolated”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.