Sciences, Including Formal Sciences and Applied Sciences
- Isolation (health care)
- Isolation (psychology)
- Isolation level, in database systems
- Isolation tank
- Galvanic isolation
- Reproductive isolation, in population genetics, prevents members of two different species cross or mate and produce offspring
- Topographic isolation
- Vibration isolation, in engineering
- Isolated system, in thermodynamics
- Isolating language
- Uncontacted tribes, people in isolation from the outside world
- Isolation effect, also known as the Von Restorff effect, a psychological effect of distinctive items more easily 'remembered'
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