[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

isolated \i"sola`ted\ imac"s-ol=a`te^d, a.
   placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others.
   1913 webster

   isolated point of a curve. geom. see acnode.
      1913 webster
see also:
isolated point of a curve acnode 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

isolate \i"solate\ imac"s-ol=at or imacs"-ol=at;
   277, v. t. imp.  p. p. isolated
   imac"s-ol=a`te^d; p. pr.  vb. n. isolating
   imac"s-ol=a`ti^ng. it. isolato, p. p. of isolare
   to isolate, fr. isola island, l. insula. see 2d isle, and
   cf. insulate.
   1913 webster
   1. to place in a detached situation; to place by itself or
      alone; to insulate; to separate from others; as, to
      isolate an infected person from others; to isolate the
      troublemakers in a classroom.
      1913 webster +pjc

            short isolated sentences were the mode in which
            ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts.
                                                  --bp.
                                                  warburton.
      1913 webster

   2. elec. to insulate. see insulate.
      1913 webster

   3. chem. to separate a substance from all foreign
      substances; to make pure; to obtain in a free state; as,
      to isolate the desired product from a reaction mixture.
      1913 webster +pjc

   4. microbiol. to obtain a culture of a microorganism in
      pure form from a complex mixture; as, to isolate
      eschericia coli from a patient's blood.
      pjc
see also:
isolated isolating isle insulate eschericia coli 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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: apartp, obscure
see also:
scattered stray detached separated set-apart disjunct 
marooned stranded quarantined apartp obscure 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

164 moby thesaurus words for "isolated":
   abandoned, alien, alienated, alone, aloof, anchoretical, anomalous,
   anonymous, apart, archipelagian, archipelagic, at rest, calm,
   cloistered, closet, companionless, cool, cordoned, cordoned off,
   cut off, deserted, detached, disarticulated, disconnected,
   discrete, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct,
   dislocated, dispersed, disrelated, dissociated, disunited, divided,
   divorced, dwindling, ebbing, estranged, even-tenored, exceptional,
   excluded, exotic, extraneous, foreign, forlorn, forsaken,
   friendless, halcyon, hermitical, hidden, homeless, hushed,
   impassive, in a backwater, incognito, incommensurable,
   incomparable, independent, individual, inmost, innermost, insular,
   insulated, interior, intimate, inward, irrelative, island,
   island-dotted, islanded, islandish, islandlike, islandy, isleted,
   isolate, kithless, lone, lonely, lonesome, moldering, monastic,
   other, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outlandish, pacific,
   particular, peaceable, peaceful, personal, placid, private, privy,
   quarantined, quiescent, quiet, remote, removed, reposeful,
   reposing, restful, resting, retired, rootless, roped off,
   scattered, seagirt, sealed off, secluded, secret, segregate,
   segregated, separate, separated, sequestered, sequestrated,
   set apart, sheltered, shut off, single, single-handed, singular,
   smooth, solitary, solo, special, still, still as death, stillish,
   stilly, stoic, stolid, stranded, strange, subsiding, tranquil,
   unabetted, unaccompanied, unaffiliated, unagitated, unaided,
   unallied, unassisted, unassociated, unattended, unconnected,
   undisturbed, unescorted, unfrequented, unique, unmoved,
   unperturbed, unrelatable, unrelated, unruffled, unseconded,
   unstirring, unsupported, untroubled, unvisited, waning,
   withdrawn

[5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

isolated
     
        compact
     
     
see also:
compact 

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