isolated

adjective

Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.

Happening or occurring only once.

(medicine) Which has been extracted from the organism.

(medicine) Of a condition or abnormality: occurring in the absence of associated conditions or abnormalities.

(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.

(algebra, of an associated prime of a module) Minimal with respect to inclusion (among associated primes).

Roots

insulaisol- · Latin · island

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