Isolation

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

Isolation or isolated may also refer to:

Sociology and psychology

Isolation (health care), various measures taken to prevent contagious diseases from being spread
- Isolation ward, a separate ward used to isolate patients suffering from 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

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

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

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

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