Isolation

Isolation is the near or complete lack of social contact by an individual.

Isolation or isolated may also refer to:

Sociology and psychology

 * Social isolation
 * Isolation (health care), various measures taken to prevent contagious diseases from being spread
 * Isolation ward, a separate ward used to isolate patients with infectious diseases
 * Isolation (psychology), a defense mechanism in psychoanalytic theory
 * Emotional isolation, a feeling of isolation despite a functioning social network
 * Isolation effect, a psychological effect of distinctive items more easily remembered

Mathematics

 * Real-root isolation
 * Isolation lemma, a technique used to reduce the number of solutions to a computational problem.

Natural sciences

 * Electrical or galvanic isolation, isolating functional sections of electrical systems to prevent current flowing between them
 * An isolated system, a system without any external exchange
 * Isolating language, a type of language with a low morpheme-per-word ratio
 * Isolation (microbiology) techniques to separate microbes from a sample containing mixtures of microbes
 * Reproductive isolation in population genetics, prevents members of two different species from producing offspring if they cross or mate
 * Topographic isolation of a summit, the great circle distance to the nearest point of equal elevation

Engineering and computer sciences

 * In electronics, a measure of how well two ports are disconnected in devices such as directional couplers and circulators
 * Isolation (database systems), how and when the changes made by one operation become visible to other concurrent operations
 * In computer security, another name for software sandboxing
 * Vibration isolation, in engineering, the process of isolating an object from the source of vibrations

In books

 * Isolation (novel), a 2012 novella by Dan Wells

In film

 * Isolation (2005 film), an Irish horror film
 * Isolation (2009 film), a British documentary film
 * Isolation, a 2015 drama film featuring Dominic Purcell, Stephen Lang, and Tricia Helfer

In television

 * "Isolation" (The Walking Dead), an episode of the television series The Walking Dead

In music

 * "Isolation", a song by Die Krupps from 1995 album III - Odyssey of the Mind
 * "Isolation" (Alter Bridge song), 2010
 * Isolation (Carpathian album), 2008
 * Isolation (Fear My Thoughts album), 2008
 * "Isolation" (John Lennon song), 1970
 * "Isolation" (Joy Division song), 1980
 * Isolation (Kali Uchis album), 2018
 * "Isolation" (Kreator song), 1995
 * Isolation (Toto album), 1984

In dance

 * A move in which only one part of the body is in motion whilst the rest of the body remains stationary.

Other

 * Isolation (board game), a 1972 board game also published under the titles Isola and Stranded
 * Isolation (illusion), an illusion whereby a prop appears to float in space
 * Isolation (poker), a play specifically for the purpose of making the hand a one-on-one contest with a specific opponent