Meaning & use
separator
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A device, substance, or element used to divide two things or keep them apart.
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She used an egg separator to keep the yolk from the whites.
A thin metal separator divides the two compartments of the drawer.
A note on using this word
Used across many fields, from kitchen tools (egg separator) to industrial machinery (cream separator) to punctuation (a comma as a separator between items).
Words with a similar meaning
divider
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