v.
- place apart or alone; cut off.
▸place in quarantine.
- Chemistry & Biology obtain or extract (a compound, microorganism, etc.) in a pure form.
- cut off the electrical or other connection to (a part of a network).
n.
a person or thing that has become isolated.
Derivative
- isolable adj.
- isolatable adj.
- isolator n.
Etymology
C19: back-form. from isolated.