segregator
One who separates
A segregator is a person or thing that separates groups or categories.
The word most often appears in discussions of racial segregation—someone who enforces or advocates for separating people by race: The segregators of the Jim Crow South maintained separate facilities for whites and blacks.
In technical contexts, a segregator may be equipment that sorts materials: The recycling plant uses a segregator to separate plastics from metals.
Thing that partitions
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
- barrierObstruction preventing passage
- screenDisplay or barrier
- wallVertical enclosing structure
separator · splitter · baffle · bulkhead · compartment · chamber · enclosure · membrane
Assigns items to groups
- sorterOne who categorizes
- separatorSomething that divides
- sifterFine-mesh separating tool
- filterPorous separation device
categorizer · organizer · grader · screener · centrifuge · hopper · conveyor · winnower
Unfair inclination or prejudice
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- bigotryIntolerance toward differing views
- racismPrejudice based on ethnicity
- apartheidRacial separation policy
Jim Crow · exclusion · inequality · separatist · supremacist · intolerance · segregationist · discriminator
divider
Thing that partitions
wall · separator · splitter · baffle · bulkhead · compartment · chamber · enclosure · membrane · gate
classifier
Assigns items to groups
filter · categorizer · organizer · grader · screener · centrifuge · hopper · conveyor · winnower · indexer
bias
Unfair inclination or prejudice
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- bigotryIntolerance toward differing views
- racismPrejudice based on ethnicity
apartheid · Jim Crow · exclusion · inequality · separatist · supremacist · intolerance · segregationist · discriminator · oppressor
segregatorintegrator
Unifies separate elements
integrationist · unifier · uniter · includer · amalgamator
segregatorintegrationist
Opposes segregated systems
civil rights activist · freedom rider · Martin Luther King Jr. · Thurgood Marshall · abolitionist
- school segregationRacial division in education
- racial segregationSeparation by ethnic background
- segregated schoolsInstitutions divided by race
- segregation lawsStatutes mandating racial separation
- segregation eraTime of legal racial separation
- segregated educationSchooling divided by group identity
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