isolated
     adj 1: not close together in time; "isolated instances of
            rebellion"; "scattered fire"; "a stray bullet grazed
            his thigh" [syn: scattered, stray]
     2: being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt
        detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated
        figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of
        herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a
        set-apart feeling" [syn: detached, separated, set-apart]
     3: marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements;
        "little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and
        unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"-
        Scientific Monthly [syn: disjunct]
     4: cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several
        stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the
        blizzard" [syn: marooned, stranded]
     5: under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a
        quarantined animal"; "isolated patients" [syn: quarantined]
     6: remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over
        the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they
        inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated
        villages remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure
        village" [syn: apart, obscure]

Isolate \I"so*late\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Isolated; p.
   pr. & vb. n. Isolating.] [It. isolato, p. p. of isolare to
   isolate, fr. isola island, L. insula. See 2d Isle, and cf.
   Insulate.]
   1. To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or
      alone; to insulate; to separate from others.

            Short isolated sentences were the mode in which
            ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts.
                                                  --Bp.
                                                  Warburton.

   2. (Elec.) To insulate. See Insulate.

   3. (Chem.) To separate from all foreign substances; to make
      pure; to obtain in a free state.

Isolated \I"so*la`ted\, a.
   Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others.

   Isolated point of a curve. (Geom.) See Acnode.

isolated

        compact